AWOL - No, I don't really think it would have been easier to post my code as a new question, but thank you for suggesting. It would have been easier, however -- and would have raised fewer peoples' blood pressure including my own -- to ponder deeply before asking my question and then ask it clearly and unambiguously. Maybe I should run my questions past Phil Donahue before posting here, which was a splendid suggestion shared by one of the earlier responders, LOL.