Hopefully these are now a thing of the passed, as last night I spend some considerable time rebuilding my PC with new; motherboard, new prossesor and new RAM. This did not go as smoothly as I would have liked, as the mother board came with 2 drivers disks the first of which causes the PC to crash as soon as it is run 
and the second of which insists that XP sevice pack 3 is installed before it is run 
.... These things would try the patience of a saint. (I'm no saint 
) Frankly I think it is a miricle that these damnd things work at all. Any way I think all is right in the world of my PC (for now anyway) So I suppose I had better start writing my FF again befor the natives start to get restless. 