Well I blew that business about setting history to zero days. I must have flushed the history without recalling it. I've not yet tinkered further, but it appears that setting it to zero gives the same result as setting it to one. Funny; I always thought zero and one were different. MS apparently has some new math going on.... ================ Thomas C. Greene Washington Bureau Chief "The Register" mailto:thomas.greene@theregister.co.uk http://www.theregister.co.uk
