I am new to this discussion. But I find that the problems of technical support get lots smaller if things are standardized. At our school we compound our problems when we have Mac's here and IBM's there , and Clones somewhere else. We are trying to use the Web as a backbone to standardize things so that the networks are more easily managed and a working toward a common look! Netscape so far has made this easier by providing its browser for free to education. This means leadership from us and the state bureacracy so that the networks we maintain is more standardized and it means that not everyone gets exactly what they want. But that simplifies the management and support but orders of magnitude. Hal Repasky, Seneca Valley SHS, Harmony, PA