Hello Seth, Since you changed to using xml (which i don't mind) I see one problem. You are now dependent of the xml library and its dependencies. In my opinion that is a severe limitation in the case where you will attempt to update from one distribution to the next ( ex. YDL3.x to YDL 4.x ) I am aware of the problems but it really would be nice t keep the dependencies to a minimum on the update function in an environment. Karsten