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To: RR who wrote (59020)	8/20/2003 4:51:49 PM
From: Sully-	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 65232

Hey dude. I had a rough three days. I'm taking over management of our NFL Football competition - 31 players from all around the country. My buddy & I are automating it. We have a website & software to automat the process of tracking picks & standings, etc. On Sunday I loaded some software to convert files to .pdf files (Adobe Acrobat). When this software opens, it tries to connect to the internet. My Dell has this quirky programming built in to automatically send hotlinks like that to this DellNet by MSN page. Unfortunately it doesn't connect to the internet. I've always worked around this quirk, but this software automatically opens the DellNet page. I can't do anything to stop it. Since a browser doesn't open, it tries again & again & again until it has opened so many pages that there aren't enough resources & the computer crashes. We spent hours & hours on the phone with Dell Tech trying to correct this problem. Instead, I ended up with more problems & my original problem was not resolved. I lost my MSN Explorer & about 200 favorites, ET AL. When I downloaded IE 6.0, it was linked to the DellNet page & would not open the browser. I had to reinstall Windows ME & play around with the registry & delete a lot of stuff which scared the heck out of me cause I am no programing expert. I finally got it to work this morning after working through the night the last two nights. I still don't know if I have screwed up other parts of the computer, but I have internet access again. Just in time too. The regular NFL season is less than two weeks away & I have to deal with a lot of folks who have loads of questions about the website, etc. (my buddy who managed the competition for more than 10 years now, kept track of everything manually). We still have to work out any bugs in our system too. That should be interesting. Funny how stuff works well in theory & practice, then goes haywire in the real world. Anyway, I'm taking the night off & going out for the first time since surgery to see how my knee/back holds up (other than the Y, rehab & my mom's). We're going to a Jethro Tull concert :-) Hopefully it will hurt so good :- Sitting on a park bench.......... Later

To: RR who wrote (59020)	8/21/2003 8:00:54 PM
From: Cactus Jack	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 65232

RR, Just got back from Tahoe a couple of hours ago. What a loud vacation. 6 kids under 13, plus a few of the older nephews (18-25) along for the ride. Good thing we had separate condos instead of renting one big cabin. Sleep was at a premium as it was. <G> Its always good to be home though. jpg