yer best bet for running any windows based app under linux is crossover office. ( the name is misleading, it's not an office suite ) if you have a copy of osx kicking around you can install macutilities, and with the osx cd in the drive, run mac programs. ( it does work for os9 and 8, might not for osx ) is your mandrake 10.0, 10.1 or 10.2[ mandriva 2005 le ]? it's always a good idea to work with newest release [ in a number series ], as it has the fewest bugs.