Actually, I checked around the connector, and the battery compartment. There were no signs of corrosion, so if they did corrode, I'm grateful to the previous owners for cleaning it up ;) Chris Christopher Smith, Perl Developer Amdocs - Champaign, IL /usr/bin/perl -e ' print((~"\x95\xc4\xe3"^"Just Another Perl Hacker.")."\x08!\n"); '