"Casamerica, I would consider 4 or 5 installs reasonable and would not want to prevent uou from doing that if needed." - clsteve I'm not casamerica, but I don't feel a 4 or 5 install limit reasonable before regresistering a product. If I buy it, and I purchase a legetimate serial nuumber with the copy that I just shelled out what, $250+ for... then I should be able to install it/unistall it/reinstall it to my little hearts content. I just went through a spate of problems on my workstation that required not one, not two, but FIVE reformats and two boot drive replacements to sort out. If any of the programs that I'm having to reinstall had a 4 install limit to aggravate me on top of the hardware headaches, they'd be coasters right now and I'd be on the phone to a software company biting chunks out of someone. We [the purchasers "we"] do not spend upwards of $200 on software for the purposes of purchasing hassle and aggravation. If a software companies protection scheme makes it more of a headache to keep the product operating than normal computer problems already are - I'll look for another tool that does the job without the headaches. If you honestly think that incorporating a trojan virus in the software is going to prevent warez, someone is deluding themselves. All you'll do is alienate your loyal consumer base. You'll slow down software crackers minimally if at all.

"I am a good person now and it feels... well, pretty much the same as I felt before (except that the headaches have gone away now that I'm not wearing control top pantyhose on my head anymore)"

• Monkeysmell