Right you are. It was truly the bottom of the machine. I finally got the seller to send me pics. No latch. )-: It has a couple very noticeable dents and they wanted $80 for it. It was local so I thought it might save time, shipping and $9 over a latch repair from another source. (Taxman is preventing any purchases right now anyway so the latch will just have to stay broken a while longer). Thanks! On Tuesday, April 8, 2003, at 12:31 AM, Kynan Shook wrote: > No, you can't; the bottom case does not include any part of the latch. > The top case includes the latch.