Very well said, CyberStretch. Kate, I also have a Costco card as well as a Bi-Mart card, but flashing a card at an employee posted at the door as you enter is not an inconvenience. You don't have to enter a code or receive a brand new access registration every time you wish to enter the store. As far as registering software, I always register mine (maybe some of the cheapy under $10 games I've bought at Office Depot or something I haven't always bothered, but my expensive ones I always register for upgrade purposes), it's just that most software companies don't REQUIRE registratiion in order to make the program work. In some ways, CL reminds me of the Borg on Star Trek. "You will be assimilated! Resistance is futile!" Register or else we won't let you use the program you just paid hard-earned money to use. It's sort of a subtle form of blackmail. This is what I'm so opposed to. It's the force that's being put on their customers. If I should eventually choose to jump in and buy it, I'll follow their ridiculous instructions, but I don't have to like it. In the meantime, I'm hoping that maybe they'll change their minds and ease up on the restrictive manner in which we're allowed to use their software. Melanie