Question: Does AOM/AOY come with prizes or not? If it does, it is a contest in every legal sense of the word. As for keeping track of clones, how hard is it for someone to code a simple IP-checking facility into a vote? It takes very few lines of code written by a competent programmer. If this Bondware thingy is such a bargain and so worth buying, then why can't it run a simple vote with IP-checking and a simple facility to allow admins to add ban-lists of open proxies? (Incidentally, the odds of two dial-up users getting pinged with the same IP whilst voting is nearly astronomical. A dial-up user trying to redial frequently to get new IP's would require more time than it is worth just to get another IP due to DHCP lease expiry settings that most ISP's have.) Now, with all that out of the way, do tell why it is so hard for a site to run a vote, when scores of smaller sites using the simple and free (and far more flexible) php Nuke suite can vote on something without a hitch? Again, Bondware is being upstaged - this time by a free GPL'd utility. I'd strongly suggest that the folks who coded this site take a step back and make sure all that effort is worth it, esp. in light of the explanations I've seen so far. /P