Jordon, I understand. FYI you can copy the definitions easily. Installs easily. I haven't had any problems. Michael Norman >I was not referring to content -- the most important part of which I understood to be >rather static between versions -- but only to the software / hardware usability issues. >With different later versions, there were things they required or forbade the user from >doing, impediments introduced (mainly of the copy protection variety), etc. I was >looking to keep all that to the bare minimum, with whatever version I got. >The older versions seemed to turn up for sale very rarely, at least at any of the places I >kept looking.