Hi Mark, Hon-Kie, It's a bug. (And a silly one at that.) lonnet.pm 1.824.2.3 has it fixed. It'll be included in lon-capa 2.3.3 (expected next week sometime) If you'd like to install it now, The patch is: http://install.loncapa.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/loncom/lonnet/perl/lonnet.pm.diff?r1=1.824.2.2;r2=1.824.2.3 -- guy@albertelli.com 0-7-0-9-27,137