Hi Loren, Thank you for your advice and time...So let me see if I understand: if I sign up for digest mode, I will only receive 1 email, and inside that will be ALL the responses for a certain time frame, including responses to MY issue? And as for the stores: I used to go to the Mac store as well, but I got sucked into the cult. do you think I should bring Mac store into it? -- Lisa b.Hammond Production Design & Styling 206.579.4550 -- Lisa b.Hammond Production Design & Styling 206.579.4550 -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Loren Smedberg" <lorensmedberg at hotmail.com> > Digest mode is great if you have a monopoly like verizon for your phone > service and they are too cheap to up grade their switching equipment down > the street from me(all though they spend lot's of money sending me fancy > fliers offering to upgrade to my connection to DSL I keep calling them back > & they tell me my line dosen't qualify yet) and you have nice slow dialup > connections and it takes forever for your emails to open, anyway if you > belong to any of these lists then all you have to wait for is one email to > open and like there will be up to 20 (sometimes) comments from list members > inside the one digest. > Also, have you been to the apple.com site? I don't know which ibook you have > but a little while ago I was in the support section of their site and I saw > something about logic board replacements in certain models of the ibooks , > they had the model numbers listed, and they were extending their free offer, > also they stated if you had already paid to have a new logic board installed > that they would reimburse you for the amount spent. I've been to the > University Village Store , & for some reason I feel a lot more comfortable > dealing with the people at the Mac store over on 45th.& Roosevelt by I-5. >