I was just getting a chuckle out of Erlik's observation: "The server has gone away" is just hilarious. It reminds me of a time when my 14-year-old was about two. She would get bored or irritated or simply distracted by something else, and right in the middle of a conversation, she'd say, "I'm gonna leaf." And that was that. She'd walk out and not turn back. We'd just be there open-mouthed wondering what in the heck had just happened. Anyway, "the server has gone away" just floors me the same way. :) BTW, I've been getting the SQL crud lately a lot, too, and it is pretty irritating to go sometimes an hour or more and not be able to log on, like last Saturday, I believe.