Going to leave this open - after giving it more thought I don't actually see any *need* to have it locked. The denigration that was taking place of the vendor involved was what made me consider that the thread had served its original purpose and had degraded into something unneeded, but I can't justify locking it when attempting to balance that with my personal goal of ensuring freedom of speech, so it will be left open unless the original poster requests that it is closed. Libertas