Arthur,

"What scares me is having to build a foundation upon something where I must work with a component when I do not know what's inside."

Agreed.

"There are people who are comfortable to have a wizard create a screen (form) for them. There are people who can live with entire program derived from templates. It drives me nuts."

I fell the same about this.

"So, in defense of programmers who need know about every file in the program, I say I would rather deal with all that than have one file -- upon which my program relies -- for which I do not have the source code."

Same here.

"Ever seen the source code to an entire operating system?"

Yes, Unisys M.C.P. code (as to many other components like the Cobol compiler, Algol compiler Cande, Gemcos, Coms, etc), already (at the time I worked with mainframes) wrote many software utilities and OS components, but that was a long time ago <s>

"Code is good."

It sure is! Unfortunatelly (unfortunatelly???) I came from a time where code abstraction was the only thing you had, there was no visual stuff. Perhaps I'm outdated... Things seem to be going in the other direction.

Thanks for your reply Arthur, I can tell you it was a relief to me!