There are some pads designed to fit perfectly over the touchpad, to prevent exactly this type of wear. I don't have the details handy, but I'll try to post them this evening. I've used them for years with my TiBooks, and they work quite well (in fact, I believe two years or so ago I organized a group purchase of these and some suede palmrests on this list.) -- Mark C. Langston Sr. Unix SysAdmin mark at bitshift.org mark at seti.org Systems & Network Admin SETI Institute http://bitshift.org http://www.seti.org