Don, many of the forums have those kinds of members, I think the ability to reign in the new members is the trick, to keep the information flow lucid. Thanks for the suggestion.

John, I've been going back and forth on the possible design of this system, and at this point am going to make disks of some stuff I want to back up and have away from any hard drives. I have come close to filling the 200G drive on this computer a couple of times (before I got rid of things I didn't really need to keep on it). A drive triple that size is plenty of room and is cheap. And I think the terabyte external drive idea came because that is what I gave my daughter, who has lots of videos on her computer and existing external drive. I'm looking at my Western Digital drive this evening to see what I did with the partitions and see if I can use the other external drive to help move around some of this stuff. I am looking at how much space is required to do a full backup with incremental backups on a weekly basis, to see if that would help solve a future similar problem (simply write it all onto a new drive and put it in the master position if need be).

Thanks for all of your help.

SRS