I've got TWO scanners and so I'm twice as 'puter nerdy as you are (and both of them work just fine, thank you--one's a flatbed, the other's for film). Of course I can't get my Zip drive to work and I haven't even tried to connect my sketchpad or my midi keyboard and I have all these goddamned programs I've bought and never used--so "'puter geeky" might be closer to the truth. Whatever it is, I'm double yours (addressed to all challengers for the title). --seed