Oh, one last detail. Once the al-session-deamon and the popview.py script were changed to my 2.2 install binary of #!/usr/local/bin/python2.2 all worked fine. My #!/usr/local/env python and #!/usr/bin/python point to 1.5.2 -- Lewis Bergman Texas Communications 4309 Maple St. Abilene, TX 79602-8044 915-695-6962 ext 115