i just wanted to take the time to say thank you to all of you for your efforts on my behalf. Unfortunately, I'm going to need this pc for my work and for starting night school this week. I figured I'd try over the weekend to get the ZIP going, but I guess It's just not meant to be. I even tried going into another old tutorial for SuSE 8 where it reccommended that I I instruct SuSE while booting to load the imm and parport modules by going i into .ex/boot.something/something.something. I'm going to do a re-install and then I need to keep this system running reliably. And, since it's getting harder to get even a printer that connects to the printer port anymore, I guess it just make sense for me to upgrade my ZIP hardware to something more modern. Even if I did get this to run, it's probably on its way to obsolescence anyhow. And I promise, I won't really destroy the ZIP drive. I have just enough time to do a clean reinstall before bed. Thank you. -Joe