Thanks Russell, I'm of the same opinion.

Malcolm

>Just my two cents, but I'd not worry about what the latest trend is on this. What's wrong with standard tooltips? Not jazzy enough? I find users want a product that's easy to use and works well and although they also would like it to look nice, this issue is not as important as the others. So use tooltips or use balloontips or come up with an even better design of your own, but ultimately this is not as important to the users as we programmers sometimes like to think.