Hi Mike,

>However, despite my perspective or objections, I think there is a place for such sessions. How many of us take the laptop back to the room, or get home to the desktop, only to find that we can't make it work like the expert did in the PowerPoint slides? A "hands-on" session could very well be worthwhile, I suppose.>

I went to a "hands-on" session at Tech Ed a few years ago. They were going to teach us how to use SMS. There must have been a million bucks worth of hardware in the room. Fifty pcs, several NT servers, Novell servers, Unix servers, a vax, etc. The thing bombed - big time! I think the guy putting on the show almost had a nervous breakdown. I actually felt sorry for him! The point is hands on can be good, but as you pointed out invariably someone will start getting ahead because they understand a little more, or think they do. Then they will mess up and have to call on the instructor to get them back where they should be. Then there's the guy who's still trying to figure out how to get FoxPro to change directories. He's there because he runs the department at work and if anyone is going to Miami, Phoenix, San Diego, etc. - it's going to be him!

That's one of the great things about the Fox team, ya'll don't mind helping us out after we get back and get stumped. Of course we feed each other here on the UT too!