No - I'm blaming the OS and poor developers rather than the hardware. Thank you for the link - but this is Mistral rather than chinook - how do I know in advance that after so much effort, it won't load because it is incompatible - we don't get these issues on OS X or even XP. If Linux is going to be more than a geeks OS, it needs a serious wake-up-call. As it stands (at least on the Nxx), it is unprofessional, amateurish, frustrating, weak, inept.