>>>I'd just buy another one and send this one to the manufacturer to have some fun with. They can probably put it to good use (i.e. sell it in some less demanding country).
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>>The least I could do, after your stargazer preempted the tip about backup <g>.
>>Never be it known that I might try common sense...
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>Common sense? We've tried weirder things than that :).

Sure I was involved in many weirder things.
But sometimes I can honestly claim to have been forced into it - documentation, managment and policy meetings, taxes...