The thing is, Carolly, when I installed stuffit, it changed all my winzip associations and it was a major pain in the neck to get them switched back (had to do the "file types" "delete" and then reassociate the darned things). ARG! Wouldn't have been so bad except stuffit won't OPEN zip files. Never could figure that one out - won't open the silly things, but automatically changes the file association upon installation. go figure, huh? :) Kate