Sue - typically we would handle things as you mentioned. However, we have been somewhat lenient with the dead link section in hopes that the members would update their items. There were over 1200 free stuff items that were reporting 404's with each batch job. That equates to a whole lot of extra emails to notify members of dead links in the free stuff section. In this particular situation, there was a limited amount of time that we had to dedicate to extensive cleaning that needed to take place in this section of the site. Nonetheless, the batch jobs will be spread out a little more from this point forward. I will see to it that your free stuff gets restored as well. Thanks for your understanding in this matter.