Eddie Hargreaves straightened out my mistaken memory of the sequence involved in removing just what you (later) want to keep. And concludes ... >I'm not sure what else iTunes could have done >to protect you from yourself other than disobeying your own actions. You're right, of course. What must have kicked in is my zest for "tidying-up". Not to let iTunes keep rags and scraps around after the "job" is done. It must have been that damn fourth grade teacher who made us tidy up our desks. Dave