The wording of this is not really clear to me, so I am asking here as I believe that others could be confused, too. If I got everything right, February 1st is the date when XP/2000 will no longer be able to access the net, either by dhcp or static IP addresses? On December 1st, incoming socket requests will be denied for these machines. This means that peer-to-peer applications will fail, like Pidgin? I first heard of this on the 6th, through our financial person, then via a message from IT Services on the 11th. Shouldn't that have been the other way around, the technical people being informed first? --STeve Andre'