Here is the sequence of my actions...on another hand, this bizarre behavior may be tied to another one I have been experiencing latelly under windows XP professional. Lets say I want to save a jpg image from the web. I open the image right click on it and under the options I choose save image. The weird thing is the only option available to me is to save it as *.bmp. In the drop down, only the bmp option is available and even though the file has a name on the slot reserved for this it says "no title". The only way I circunvent this is by typing a title and the jpg extension and saving thus. Go figure