Don't worry too much about it, Drac. A while ago, I had this wonderful idea about a novel in which a couple of researchers found Beethoven's lost Tenth Symphony and got involved in a very tight situation with people who wanted to steal the manuscript. Brought that to the publisher, he approved it... and one month later some American writer published a novel very similar: Tenth Symphony, mysterious killings and so on. My novel outline went to the recycling bin __ but no one thought that I or the other author were plagiarizing each other. Sometimes we refer to a sort of Common Imagery that seems to be out there for all of us. Robert Anton Wilson made some great studies on "Morphic Resonance" (sorry, I don't know the exact English term, so I'm translating)... you're not alone, Drac! :) S.