I agree with both points here. At the moment I would be glad to see that one-legged Irishman turn up on my doorstep with my copy, he still seems to be lost somewhere between Dublin and my part of London. But I also agree about downloading being the pits on a dialup. I rarely get a rate above 40, 45 is good. And typically for BT when they made connection to broadband a special cheap offer it didn't cover my area.

The greatest part of wisdom is learning to develop  the ineffable genius of extracting the "neither here nor there" out of any situation...."