I don't know, but it looks to me as those "data-center" guys got theyr degrees by correspondence, and not even by regular mail: they must have used a note-in-a-bottle system to correspod to some MS-pseudo-college. But I see another option... If you can spare some money, or get another computer somewhere, you can always install XP onthis one, and connect this one to the network. The gust there would be happy and, after all is working, you can set up Linux to use this one as gateway. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ Gustavo Seabra Graduate Student Chemistry Dept. Kansas State University Registered Linux user number 381680 ------------------------------------------------------------------ If at first you don't succeed... ...skydiving is not for you.