I had this bad feeling that someone was going to say something like this. Well, at least we have the 15 reauth codes, so I think I'm going to do what you suggest, and wait. Why is it that SPSS gets a little more strange with each release? Thanks all! --STeve Andre' On Wednesday 05 March 2008 15:53:59 Lori Langone wrote: > SPSS 16.0 is REALLY buggy, even after installing the 16.0.1 patch and the > three existing hot fixes. Save yourself some hassle, and wait a while > before upgrading from 15.0. I've wasted most of a day already this week > just trying to get it to work properly. As per SPSS tech support, more hot > fixes are in the works; they know there are a lot of problems to be > resolved. > > I had to use the email authorization; the Internet authorization does not > work. > > Lori Langone > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: MSU Network Administrators Group [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On > Behalf Of STeve Andre' > Sent: Wednesday, March 05, 2008 3:20 PM > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [MSUNAG] SPSS16 > > I know this sounds a little weird, but I haven't been able to > install and authorize SPSS16 yet. SPSS15, fine, but not 16. > > What happens is during the authorization, I get a delay of > about 30 seconds, and then an error message saying that > the authorization was denied. Not terribly useful. > > Perhaps I didn't notice it before, but I got what looked like > a Java JRE error message. All the machines I tried this on > were patched XP systems. > > Is there a requirement for some level of Java now that I > didn't clue in on, for SPSS? Or is SPSS torturing me just > because it can... ? > > tnx, STeve Andre'