Thanks for the warning, Joe. I just spent the last 2 days cleaning my laptop and my desktop. Seems I got hit with the "WIN32/CIH" virus, and transfered it from the portable to the desk top without knowing. Took me a while to figure out it was a virus, although my wife said , 3 times, "Sure sounds like a virus to me!" Should have listened. ANYWAY .... moral of the story is to have a good resident virus checker. The one I'm now using (yeah, I did'nt use one until now ... duh :( is freely available at www.grisoft.com Seems to work really well. Hope this will help someone else. -Peter- =============================== Peter Jacobs M17 "Enfin" Victoria BC Canada --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.312 / Virus Database: 173 - Release Date: 12/31/01