Hi Crelf, Thanks for your response to my paltry delemma! I had some suspicions that the original coding methodology may have been a big player here(purely novice conjecture on my part though). I'm also trying to go to the author with a cattle prod(time constraints forgo the bucket n' stool route here), failing this tack however, will be the catalyst to send in(with high hopes of cracking) "The Code". Thanks again for your help here and stay tuned / stand-by for the next pertubation which won't require much of a justation period!