Well,... Hmm,... just an innocent question: Do you know that the virtual dongle is gone for good, or do you just assume that the removal is permanent? The only official statement I ever saw only said that it is removed from the latest SR because the dongle was supposed to be a source of technical trouble (that they couldn't fix otherwise), but it gave no hint about what happens if/when they find a fix for that (assuming that the statement about the reasons for the removal was correct in itself). I'm a huge fan of Tom Lehrer, so quoting one of his famous introductions in a new context: "Yeah, I know that CL introduced a virtual dongle with Poser ProPack, but we taught them a lesson and - as we all know - they never tried it again!" :-) :-) :-)