>I tried to get Robert to give me something more specific other than 1999, but he wouldn't specify any other date...not even a quarter. It's very possible that it will be Spring...but it isn't official.

FWIW, The MS Press part of the M$ website has an "Ask the MCP Experts" page, and I posed this question along with one about the VI classification last week. You can find this at http://mspress.microsoft.com/train/experts/answers.htm

Hopefully my questions will show up there in the near future.