On Friday, Mar 26, 2004, at 07:26 Canada/Eastern, Anne Keller-Smith wrote: > [...] one of the tecchies did suggest I partition my > hard drive - is this one of the reasons partitioning is > a good idea, to prevent issues of this sort? [...] No. From your description, all the issue you encountered can be ascribed to the poorly designed and implemented Palm software. Partitioning is -- in my books -- a "good thing", but for different reasons. f