Greetings again. Thanks for your note. I'd always thought trout-slapping was something done between friends, or at least acquaintances, but in this case I didn't detect any such connotation and the reason given just didn't click with me ) Not to mention those little gems "acceptable" and "the procedure". Be that as it may, there's plenty o' stuff waiting to be done, so in the immortal words of Blind Boy Fuller, let's "Keep on truckin'!"