While it's possible that he's a bit put off being called 'Tom' instead of 'Tim', which is his name, I doubt it... I know it's often regarded as an 'excuse' when someone but Tim really is... he already had a large backlog of of work at his tape conversion firm, but my understanding is that Sept. 11 stretched his work queue out to the length of one year. Yes, he has what he has estimated to be a one year-long queue of work to process. He does seem to find time to post here and there, but a monk's got to have some pleasures in life... It would be *nice* if he'd be willing to delegate the taking care of loose ends on his behalf. He doesn't owe me anything, though I'd love to get his attention for 15 minutes of Q&A... -dq -Douglas Hurst Quebbeman (DougQ at ixnayamspayIgLou.com) [Call me "Doug"] Surgically excise the pig-latin from my e-mail address in order to reply "The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away." -Tom Waits