OK - now no egg-throwing just because I'm working down the road... ;) I thought the PC support community might be interested in this: - Here at UofM they have some very large negotiated contract with Microsoft for licensing rates which are incredible: http://www.itd.umich.edu/microsoft/MicroDept.html - The schools (apparently) pay some type of money to the University, and in return can run all sorts of stuff on any desktop they want (see $0* items), and server licensing is great too: http://www.itd.umich.edu/sw-info/microsoft/microsoft_select_prices.html I'm not sure how much the Schools are paying for this, but it certainly streamlines the auditing bit - just thought I'd pass it along... Hope everyone is having fun at MSU - I saw the wireless networking discussions coming up :) take care, Rob Neary Senior Computer Systems Specialist Medical School Information Systems