Allie has a temper, that much I do know (i've seen it flare up; fortunately I don't seem to have been the target, but still...). She's very talented, but it seems many talented artists share this trait... Hopefully she'll be back after she cools off, but having seen some of the discussions in the Contact board, where she got into a shouting match with Jack and half of the staff, I don't know if she WILL cool off. The problem was that she immediately assumed that someone was either malicious or incompetent (or at least her posting IMPLIED that - it's VERY easy to misread the intent of a post online, since there's no tonal inflection or body language to supplement the words), and she got a snide reply essentially saying "Either apologize and re-word that or we won't help you" followed by Jack trying to balance being civil with outrage at her reaction towards one of his staff. Allie then apparently demanded that THEY apologize to her, and I stopped reading the thread after that... Lost links sometimes happen; database corruption can afflict even the best system (I know; I've been victim of it myself), and I suspect that's what happened to her file, a pointer got lost or reassigned either by human error or file corruption. Unfortunately, egos got in the way of resolving a problem, and this forum may have lost a member (as well as an invaluable resource) as a result. Only time will tell.