And you don't wake up in a cold sweat, Tim? Look at it this way. You are the only one with the (I assume) higher resolution copies of the images. If you croak how do you expect your family to publish posthumously, make a million dollars, and get you the credit you didn't get in your lifetime? :-) ...and since no one asked...yes Firewire seems to be behaving as advertised. The only thing the drive will not do is pump audio thru my speaker system. And, of course, the bondy blue case looks sooo cool sitting atop the G3...heh I know a lot of people in the industry, working on a lot of diferent platforms and I'm the only one to have taken the Firewire plunge. Talk about cold sweats. jje