so, not only do we upgrade to XP on our home computers (except one, more later), but we are running a new G4867 with X10. It all seemed so easy in my mind: the X10 OS is SUPPOSED to plug and play with XP. not quite. more on that later, but first, the reason that I kept a maching on the dismal ME OS was to support games. that's right. there are many games that i'm finding don't quite run right on XP. I could list several, but the one that bugs the older kids the most is sim theme park world. It loads, sort of, and runs, for a moment, and then it has actually crashed XP, which turns out to be as uncrashable as the Titanic. but I digress. Well, this OS X with the cinema screen is pretty cool. When it can grab the stuff from one of the networked PCs I'll celebrate. happy Holidays!