That's right Kelly. Better teach that machine some discipline! You may want to threaten it to put it out of the window in the cold at the minimum sign of misbehaviour. Needless to say, the strategy was dealt with, both firmly and extensively, in an article by Aloysius just last year. See: Successful Threat/Reward Strategies in Software Maintenance And Discipline, by Aloysius Q. Schmaltzenstein Gavronsky and Maurizio Senaldi. Annals of Alternative Software Practices, volume XXIII, pp. 35 to 47. [Milano, 2004] Regards, Guido Guido Dante Corona IBM Accessibility Center, Austin Tx. Research Division, Phone: 512. 838. 9735. Email: guidoc@xxxxxxxxxxx Web: http://www.ibm.com/able "Kellie Hartmann" <kellhart@xxxxxxxxxx> Sent by: bksvol-discuss-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 01/06/2005 11:16 AM Please respond to bksvol-discuss To <bksvol-discuss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> cc Subject [bksvol-discuss] Re: kurzweil's online search That's right Guido, Those problems had better just stay away from me and my machine if they know what's good for them. <lol> Kellie