Wow Paul, you missed a lot. :-)

All's well now, more or less. I think I'll spare you having to read the thread (unless you really want to) and I'll call you.

All's well now in that I'm using ethernet. Faster than USB from what I can tell (presuming that makes some sense, and recalling the Win2K setup). Seems that WinXP's USB handling quote-broke-unquote some prior assumptions from a UI and setup perspective, and perhaps emplode depended on those. We'll see. I think it'll be fine in the end.