After almost 10 days of either not having time to add anything here, or not having anything worth writing about, I finally grabbed a couple of minutes for a quick Microsoft bashing (below). And it didn't work; the story disappeared into a black hole somewhere. After first blaming myself or my browser, and trying unsuccessfully with different browsers, I finally decided to blame my web hosting service. They had a major meltdown last week. A hard-drive crash on a server took down a bunch of sites (including this one) for at least 8 hours. And a week later, some small problems still haven't been fixed. After a couple of hours debugging, and several unanswered messages to their support department, I managed to find the problem and program around it. Troubleshooting is always fun when the real source of the problem is beyond my control and the responsible parties are too lazy or clueless to fix it. Well, considering their prices, I guess I can't complain .. you get what you pay for.