Hehehe - The wife just got home this morning (I'm married to a nurse who works nights alot), so playing w/ 3D art keeps me out of trouble when she's off to work. :) BTW - it was Papa John's, and I feel way bloated (but in a good way) this morning :) The external drive took some work, but it's up now - had to format it into two 20GB NTFS partitions before Win2k would let me play with it. It operates just as efficiently as an internal drive; here's where and what I bought (item) and (item image). The only problem I had was in finding a 6-to-4 pin cable adapter (Dell has built-in 1394 firewire on their laptops now, but it's the tiny 4-pin port.); found that after checking around locally for an hour; came home from work, plugged it all in, and it worked great after fixing the pre-loaded partitioning. BTW - Someone tell Dark Whisper that Nicole and her accessories are well worth the $30.00 asking price - everything is very professionally done, and works quite well; I think I'll just have to cough up a beach house for her once I get the Atrium roof done :) /P