>>>ordered 5.0a 4 weeks ago. requested cd version. yesterday, got 30 diskettes. good job, m$.
>>You are lucky, Dave, I didn't get mine yet... :)
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>haven't installed it yet so i don't know for sure which version it is. trying to get the cd version -- they say it doesn't exist! any ideas?

Call them back and insist that the CD version does exist. The operator I talked to the second time couldn't find the CD version either. But I told her I was sure it existed and she did some more searching and found it. I even gave her the part number and the search she did didn't find it. It seems the 5.0a CD version isn't listed in the part number database.