If I had spent my own money for PPP I probably would be really panicking now instead of just complaining a bit... :-) :-) :-) OK, this already sounds a bit better now, although I must confess that I don't understand it. If I reformat my drive, it is gone with the wind. Finito. Kaputt. Zeroed. NULL. I truly hope you're not going to mess with my parameter RAM...??? (panic creeps again :-) And - believe it or not - I am an ally. I replied to this thread, because I'm pretty much concerned about your future - you might call this presumptuous because it's not my business at all, but I'm simply a normal user who watches software and company success for over a decade now, and I can see some patterns. Ten years ago some software got copy-protected discs with limited installs, and every office I knew of avoided this - because they knew that the floppies will give up after some time, and the chance that the company is no longer around then was too frightening. Some of those companies stopped using the protection soon after, and the remaining ones died. That's a fact. Now we have the Quark/Adobe battle. Every person in the print business will tell you that InDesign is a load of rubbish, and Quark works brilliant in comparision. Still, InDesign is taking some money off Quark - because of the dongle. If you ask me, this is stupid, because companies can easily live with the dongle - it is not much different to any other hardware related risk. If my Quark crashes, I can re-install it any time - WITHOUT QUARK! Still, many professional companies are so concerned about the possibility that the dongle might fail in 7 years, and Quark is gone in 7 years, that they consider to switch to this toy program by Adobe. If you tell them that they rely on you for every new harddisc... oh dear! I would be eternally sad if I ever read that CuriousLabs has followed poor Joey Ramone to join the great gig in the sky, simply because you kicked too many honest users in order to hurt much fewer villains. PS: Why don't you use a dongle??? Give me dongle and the personal key for it to be entered. When I'm on a lonely island without the internet. PPS: Hmm... do you want me to send back my PPP now? :-) ?