*Bows* Why, thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed it. Um, so you're saying I'm *not* going to find it getting better if I just keep plugging along? Drat. I'm really in for a long haul, then. Peter just tells me that I should be readiing faster! Guess that would be one solution -- get it over with quick. And thanks for the suggestion about the "guidebooks" to the facts -- the symbols and clues in the pictures and all really do intrigue me, but it also irritates me to not know if his research is good or not. I've heard just enough to make me sceptical.