a couple of months ago i posted an issue about some core (user.module) code which didn't get much attention (none), presumably because I gave it low priority. Assuming from recent posts that code quality is of higher priority than I thought, and since Jax just posted a patch for my concern, i invite you all to look at: http://drupal.org/node/66945 -- Alan Dixon, Web Developer http://alan.g.dixon.googlepages.com/