OK. I'm willing to leave a CD in the drive. I'm even willing to hold a red piece of plastic over a page of fingerprints to find the match or search for the 7th word in the 4th paragraph or whatever hoop I'll need to jump through. If the computer wants to search my LAN (if I ever get the beasties connected) and verify that yes, I only have 1 copy installed, that is fine. I just refuse to have another hardware dongle in the studio, considering that several years later I'm still irritated about the last fiasco. If Autodesk could have given me a patch, or at least some sympathy, I wouldn't have minded so much, but by making my investment worthless, they soured me on the concept of dongles. Carolly