cheers eric, spot on the mark. it was a long day yesterday, topped off with my OSX partition running out of disk space, meaning i had to repartition and clean install (live partitioning wasn't working either...). thankfully, i keep my home folder on a seperate drive, so all the pain of setting up preferences and itunes playlists and remembering bookmarks was thankfully not needed. plus i now have the space to put my new CS3 on as well! (i bought it but ran out of space so had to stick with CS1 until i could be bothered to repartition)