sigh...sorry, it's just that everyone is getting so anxious over this XP thing that it seems like there's some sort of disinformation campaign going on out there about it. I know that the registration is a little, ah, different, but it's not like everything on your computer gets sent to Microsoft, only your hardware config. Billy Boy doesn't have that much power yet ;). Give him time...then I'll be paranoid right along with ya. But not yet :) Laurie