>Whew! Glad that is resolved. I would also liked to have been able to figure >out what the problem was, but I think we thoroughly exhausted all >possibilities befer resorting to a reinstall

Come on, you know that there is no such thing as thoroughly exhausting all possibilities! But a day and a half is quite long enough to resolve something that you know annialation will cure. Well, unless the annialation is regarding a society or something, that may not be such a good answer...