Sorry that I'm a day late, but there is a very good reason for my tardiness (for once). As some of you may know, I have been working on an old computer that I bought in 1998, and which I have been constantly upgrading ever since. More often than not the upgrades were forced upon me by a recalcitrant machine protesting at its old circuits being asked to perform the tasks of a youngster. A kind of PC plastic surgery that only delayed the inevitable. That said, the only thing that remains of the machine I bought almost ten years ago is the system unit case, 3.5 inch floppy drive and the keyboard: everything else has been transplanted. It has had a new motherboard, too many hard-drives to count (each bigger and more powerful than the last), the 32Mb RAM that it had when I first got it (and oh! how advanced that was at the time) was increased to 1Gb, then reduced again to 778Mb (when a 512 chip failed to be replaced with an old 256 stick that was lying around). Recently, however, the hard-drives have begun playing up again, and I decided to retire the old girl rather than impose yet another temporary repair on her. She was getting awfully noisy anyway! So off I popped to get a new younger and more glamorous model. I felt like I was betraying an old friend as I copied all of the data and software over. She seemed to skulk in the corner, giving me hurt looks. Will I get over it? I'll tell you this, though, the new one will take a bit of getting used to, with its 2Gb RAM (upgradeable to 4Gb) and its 400Gb hard-drive and lightscribe DVD writer!