" ...if you live where borers or drainage can be a problem, myro is far superior IMO." Definitely, but even if they need to be planted in well drained soil, that's seems to be an easy tradeoff for me. Once the drainage is right, they are easy to manage. Plus peach seedlings come up everywhere (like weeds) so that's the rootstock material I have available. I bought some J. plums from Johnson Nursery once. They were on peach roots and seem to take roughly the same care as peaches. For longevity, I wonder if a plum on Myro would live longer?

The name of the program is Centerpoint. It is made by Pearson Publishing Company that publishes Prentice Hall books. We go to them. I put nothing on my computer. We can log on at school or from home - generally. I think it is on our school server, because it used to crash all the time, and they found out that most of the elementary schools started at about the same time, and all the teachers would take attendance at the beginning of the hour. As they all logged on, it crashed. It really grates me. It is no secret that we have about 15 elementary schools, and all four secondary sites. Our building has 9th and 10th grades with 2400 students. Why would it be a surprise that the system couldn't take all the activity? Isn't that why they are techs? You would think that would be the first thing they would look at when they bid on using it in our school. Anyway, I don't understand why I can shop in so many places, I can go to the College Board and read about AP Standards. I can go into all kinds of places, but this is blocked, and nobody can unblock it. They can just say it isn't compatible with Vista. It doesn't make sense to me. Frankly if we wouldn't purchase anymore of their books if they couldn't fix it, it would be fixed. Oh, well. I just don't understand. Sammy

haus: I think you are approaching this issue with a very sensible mindset. I have a few more thoughts. Re the Prestige hood: they have had consistently positive feedback here on GW, although of course I have no personal experience. Can you say exactly which model you are looking at? I honestly don't believe that there are huge design differences between brands, so I agree that what you should be focusing on is first, maximum capture area, and secondarily, the depth of the hood (the "sump depth"), which also has some effect on performance Reading your earlier posts, is the Prestige designed for 10'' duct? As much as I am a fanatic about ducting (the amount of time and $$ I spent getting my duct transtitioned from 10'' to 18 x 4'' rectangular and back to 10'' again was ridiculous) I don't think your run is all that bad. You go from a 60 sq inch cross section rectangular to a roughly 50 sq in round duct, not as nice as the 75 sq inches you get with 10'', but decent. The upside is that your run is quite short. Even with two turns that is not bad compared to a typical first floor to attic run. So...even if the Prestige is designed for 10'' duct, I don't think it's unreasonable just to transition it to your existing ductwork. Will it be as good as new 10''? Of course not, but it will be better than what you have if you use a decent blower. Speaking of that, I love Fantech blowers (we have two, one for the kitchen hood, one in the master bath). The remote mount FKD 8XL is the smaller verion of the FKD 10XL we have, which kicks B###. The 8XL is rated at over 800 cfm at zero inches of pressure, more than adequate to pull through your duct I suspect. Remote mounting is totally superior to internal blowers and would always be the better choice IMHO. You'll get some motor noise if you don't use a silencer, but it will still far outperform an internal sound-wise. By the way, the requirement for a wall switch is not a disadvantage, it's a huge advantage. I hate craning my neck around to see the switches in our VAH hood at the lake. For the MA, I just reach to the left of the range and boom. AND...you can use an infinitely variable rheostat, giving you complete control over how fast the blower is running, a huge plus. I think that the Prestige plus an 8LX would be a substantial upgrade over existing. It will likely make you happy (at least until you see what our 64'' MA hood and 10XL blower and LD10 silencer can do :-)

I would contact the 3-D software folks. They would have the driver fix. I would think they would have put that in an update file. I have both 3-D and 4-D but I am still on XP. Sorry I did not help much. Nanci