Hi Anthony After the last debate about this type of protection in the service pack for PP, CL pulled the plug on it and Steve asked us users to report warez sites and help CL fight warez. Well I kept up my end of the bargain and went hunting on the net and reported several sites and even one place selling pirated copies for 50 bucks a pop. I doubt I am the only one who reported warez to CL. Forgive me but I am feeling a little betrayed right now, I made an effort to help CL and wound up getting paid back by this protection scheme. When I bought the Avatar Lab, I was slightly irritated when I saw this scheme implimented there too. But the worst part was the fact that my work machine is not connected to the internet, and when I mailed CL from another PC for the code, it didn't even work. This was disappointing, espescially since Steve had invited me to meet him at CL's Atmosphere site. Yes I could have called long distance to the U.S. late at night or e-mailed support and complained and waited a few days, but at that point I just gave up. I'm not gonna burn my bridges and say I'm never going to upgrade to P5, I'm just not going to now. Though I do appreciate CL's other effort to please it's customers any all of the employees posting to the various forums keeping us up to date, I still fell this is very poor payback to loyal customers. :-( David Lara