By the way, I threw away VVAppLauncher and got much-improved startup performance and it solved a small crash. You can no longer say " open Filemaker Pro " or whatever, but that never worked for half of my applications anyway. I simply created small scripts using the AppleScript editor, such as the following script named "Open SpeakPad", and put them in the ViaVoice/Scripts folder: tell application "SpeakPad" activate end tell It took about 10 minutes, worked like a charm, and I have never regretted throwing away VVAppLauncher. --John Glenn __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com