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Matthew: While the GUI issue IS a current thing, I was trying to say that we SHOULD take it very seriously! I guess I didn't really make myself clear in the last message. Selden was a manufacturer of electric cars, and a rather small one at that, and when they sued one of the larger car companies for using an internal combustion engine, nobody took it that seriously. Well, the judge decided to agree with Selden, upholding the validity of their patent, and soon ALL the major car manufacturers were paying royalties to Selden who by that time had stopped making cars alltogether, and was just collecting money from everyone else! It's possible that with Apple sueing folks left & right that we could get into the same sort of situation (everyone paying royalties to Apple! -Mike Schiller In sunny Fort Lauderdale