>just curious, can't the school resell the computer? No. Once it becomes university property, it cannot be sold until it is sent to surplus. It can be transferred to any other department on campus. This prevents people from using grant funds for getting around sales taxes (not to mention heavy-duty fraud). Peter -- A little computer haiku: I can't remember the last time I restarted I love OS X This message sent with Eudora 6.0b24 on Mac OS X 10.2.6