shadowdragonlord; yeah, I've done that,......I'm running Win2000 Pro,.......maybe that's part of the problem. I dunno. I've got to do a regularly scheduled reformat of all my machines(eliminates bit rot), so I'll do that tonight or tomorrow and start all over again. Thanks everyone for your attention and suggestions. TOM(sackrat).

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