>Yup. I agree that that's a good solution. I don't at all mean to imply that I think tool tips should be any longer that a word or two. I'm not really crazy about status messages, personally, so, I've started attaching "cue cards" to fields. Then the users are in control of writing the cues.
What's a 'cue card'?
The Anonymous Bureaucrat,
and frankly, quite content not to be
a member of either major US political party.