Trevor, We all know that you really loved your PowerBook, but at the time of theft the time value might have been merely $1000 instead of the $3500 you paid for it new. So what interest me, is how does your policy (or any other available) handle this. Do they pay 25% of the new price that is proved with the receipt, or do they have some kind of blue-book (like car insurances) that they use. Christoph