I will repeat what I already said because I just tested it again. In System Profiler, I could hear all the information for hardware overview, including the serial number, without interacting. However, in order to isolate the specific serial number line and move by word and character, I DID have to interact with hardware overview. I am running the latest version of Leopard. What does or does not work on Tiger or on somebody else's machine I can't say. -- Cheryl "Where your treasure is, there will your heart be also." > > Click on the link below to go to our homepage. > http://www.icanworkthisthing.com > > Manage your subscription by using the web interface on the link below. > //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover > > Users can subscribe to this list by sending email to > macvoiceover-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > with 'subscribe' in the Subject field OR by logging into the Web > interface at //www.freelists.org/list/macvoiceover >