I feel your pain. I am still running 98SE on virtual PC on my Mac. I will NEVER go to XP and those ridiculous protection schemes. The slammer worm is still causing problems - so just how great is M$ as an operating system if it can constantly be so EASILY hacked? MS protects no one - they only protect their highly over-inflated bottom line. Karma will catch up with them soon... MightyPete is dead on - a revolution is coming. Other countries aren't standing for this rubbish - and the writing is on the wall. Scott