Fingers crossed, knock on wood, don't tempt fate ... the horrific error 404 hits that I was getting on my site seem to have stopped all of a sudden. No idea why but I've been clean since February according to my web stats pages over at my ISP. You should have seen the numbers. When I investigated, though, I found that they came from such things as a spacer.gif file being out of place and miniscule things such as that. I have a nice new 404 page too, by coincidence: I built a couple of nice looking, albeit amateur, graphics for the page. Worth making a mistake just to have a look see! Anyway, I fixed a few and you lot helped me to find other things so well done to anyone who helped. Aaaah the relief! Hope they don't come back, now. DW