>If I clean up the prompt on lostfocus, the user will no longer have the prompt as a guide.

Isn't it enough to restore the prompt in the gotfocus event?

>PS: What's the weather up there. I hear you guys got clobbered recently with beaucoup ice and snow.

Yeah, lots of snow. Probably it will be a new record for January (last one was in 1871: 111 cm). Now it's better because it was warm today and some of the snow melted. But forecast says that we'll have more snow this week. :(

Vlad