Okay, before I go and do this, speakup.i was built with an smp kernel and this isn't an smp computer. I've read email that advises against using smp kernels on systems and the kernel howto seems to suggest using smp kernels on all intel computers whether they're smp or not. It's an advice conflict here. What are the specific instabilities likely to happen using smp kernels on single processor machines or were those isolated cases? -- Jude <dashielljt(at)gmpexpress-dot-net>