well, i sent that post i promised. but it's being held up for moderator approval. no, i haven't been subjected to mother-may-i again; it's because the post was too big, over a 40k limit... a whopping 55815k. told you it was big. roughly 1/3 the size of "alice" itself. if you haven't already read the book, i highly recommend you do that first. or instead, as the case might be... gardner, you better schedule 90 minutes instead. :+) -bowerbird p.s. you can also feel free to look at this, give you something to do:

http://snowy.arsc.alaska.edu/bowerbird/test-suite/test-suite.zml