The way I see it, you can't help us if we don't help you. Things function better in a society and an economy when you have co-operation as well as competition (that's the socialist in me talking <g>). I never forsaw Dictate or anything like it, even when Apple switched to Intel. But I would have kept upgrading iListen at intervals just the same. Not all of the debt I've managed to get my husband and myself into is medically related; some of it comes from putting his money where my mouth is ;-) At 3:59 PM, 2/2/08 or thereabouts, Chuck Rogers spake thus: >And all of us at MacSpeech are extraordinarily grateful and humbled by >the support you and so many others have shown us through the years. >Were it not for you, MacSpeech Dictate would not have been possible. Best, Erica M.N. Mackenzie Sunshine Coast, QLD, AUSTRALIA