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                                   EXHIBIT 4.3

                          [FORM OF WARRANT CERTIFICATE]

                           THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE
                  NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS
                  AMENDED, AND HAVE BEEN ACQUIRED FOR INVESTMENT AND NOT WITH A
                  VIEW TO, OR IN CONNECTION WITH, THE SALE OR DISTRIBUTION
                  THEREOF. NO SUCH SALE OR DISPOSITION MAY BE EFFECTED WITHOUT
                  AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT RELATED THERETO OR AN
                  OPINION OF COUNSEL FOR THE COMPANY THAT SUCH REGISTRATION IS
                  NOT REQUIRED UNDER SUCH ACT.

No. WTW-                                              _________________ Warrants
                                                               CUSIP____________

                             WARRANT CERTIFICATE FOR
                            PURCHASE OF COMMON STOCK

                          VOID AFTER DECEMBER 29, 2005

                         AMERICAN COUNTRY HOLDINGS INC.
                             a Delaware Corporation

             This certifies that FOR VALUE RECEIVED _______________ or
registered assigns (the "Registered Holder") is the owner of the number of
Warrants ("Warrants") specified above. Each Warrant initially entitles the
Registered Holder to purchase, subject to the term and conditions set forth in
this Certificate and the Warrant Agreement (as hereinafter defined), one fully
paid and non-assessable share of Common Stock, $.01 par value ("Common Stock"),
of American Country Holdings Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Company"), at
any time prior to the Expiration Date (as hereinafter defined) upon the
presentation and surrender of this Warrant Certificate with the Subscription
Form on the reverse hereof duly executed, at the corporate office of American
Stock Transfer & Trust Company as Warrant Agent, or its successor (the "Warrant
Agent"), accompanied by payment of $1.925 per share of Common

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Stock, if exercised at any time after the date hereof and on or before 3:30 p.m.
New York time on December 29, 2005 (the "Purchase Price") in lawful money of the
United States of America in cash or by official bank or certified check made
payable to the Company.

                  This Warrant Certificate and each Warrant represented hereby
are issued pursuant to and are subject in all respects to the terms and
conditions set forth in the Warrant Agreement (the "Warrant Agreement") dated as
of December 29, 2000 between the Company and the Warrant Agent.

                  In certain events provided for in the Warrant Agreement, the
Purchase Price or the number of shares of Common Stock subject to purchase upon
the exercise of each Warrant represented hereby are subject to modification or
adjustment.

                  Each Warrant represented hereby is exercisable at the option
of the Registered Holder, but no fractional shares of Common Stock will be
issued. In the case of the exercise of less than all the Warrants represented
hereby, the Company shall cancel this Warrant Certificate upon the surrender
hereof and shall execute and deliver a new Warrant Certificate or Warrant
Certificates of like tenor, which the Warrant Agent shall countersign, for the
balance of such Warrants.

                  The term "Expiration Date" shall mean 3:30 P.M. New York time
on December 29, 2005 or such earlier date as the Warrants shall expire. If such
date shall in the State of New York be a holiday or a day on which the banks are
authorized to close, then the Expiration Date shall mean 3:30 P.M. New York time
the next following day which in the State of New York is not a holiday or a day
on which banks are authorized to close.

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                  This Warrant shall not be exercisable by a Registered Holder
in any state where such exercise would be unlawful.

                  This Warrant Certificate is exchangeable, upon the surrender
hereof by the Registered Holder at the corporate offices of the Warrant Agent,
for a new Warrant Certificate or Warrant Certificates of like tenor representing
an equal aggregate number of Warrants, each of such new Warrant Certificates to
represent such number of Warrants as shall be designated by such Registered
Holder at the time of such surrender. Upon due presentment together with any tax
or other governmental charge imposed in connection therewith, for registration
of transfer of this Warrant Certificate at such office, a new Warrant
Certificate or Warrant Certificates representing an equal aggregate number of
Warrants will be issued to the transferee in exchange therefor, subject to the
limitations provided in the Warrant Agreement.

                  Prior to the exercise of any Warrant represented hereby, the
Registered Holder shall not be entitled to any rights or a stockholder of the
Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote or to receive
dividends or other distributions, and shall not be entitled to receive any
notice of any proceedings of the Company, except as provided in the Warrant
Agreement.

                  Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer hereof,
the Company and the Warrant Agent may deem and treat the Registered Holder as
the absolute owner hereof and of each Warrant represented hereby
(notwithstanding any notations of ownership or writing hereon made by anyone
other than a duly authorized officer of the Company or the Warrant Agent) for
all purposes and shall not be affected by any notice to the contrary.

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                  This Warrant Certificate shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of Illinois.

                  This Warrant Certificate is not valid unless countersigned by
the Warrant Agent.

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                  IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Company has caused this Warrant
Certificate to be duly executed, manually or in facsimile by two of its officers
thereunto duly authorized and a facsimile of its corporate seal to be imprinted
hereon.
                                     AMERICAN COUNTRY HOLDINGS INC.

Dated: ___________________________   By __________________________________

This Warrant is one of the
warrants referred to in the
above-mentioned Warrant
Agreement Countersigned:

AMERICAN STOCK TRANSFER &
  TRUST COMPANY
  as Warrant Agent

By _________________________________________
             Authorized Officer

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                    [FORM OF REVERSE OF WARRANT CERTIFICATE]

                                SUBSCRIPTION FORM

                     To Be Executed by the Registered Holder
                          in Order to Exercise Warrants

                  The undersigned Registered Holder hereby irrevocably elects to
exercise, upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Warrant
Agreement dated December 29, 2000, Warrants represented by this Warrant
Certificate and to purchase the securities issuable upon the exercise of such
Warrants, and requests that certificates for such securities shall be issued in
the name of

         PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER

                             _________________________________________

                             _________________________________________

                             _________________________________________

                              [please print or type name and address]

and be delivered to
                             _________________________________________

                             _________________________________________

                             _________________________________________

                              [please print or type name and address]

and if such number of Warrant shall not be all the Warrants evidenced by this
Warrant Certificate, that a new Warrant Certificate for the balance of such
Warrants be registered in the name of, and delivered to, the Registered Holder
at the address stated below.

                  In full payment of the Purchase Price with respect to the
Warrants exercised, the undersigned hereby tenders payment of $_______ in cash
or by official bank or certified check payable to the order of American Country
Holdings Inc. and undertakes to provide the Warrant Agent any additional tax or
charge within five (5) business days.

                  The undersigned represents that the exercise of the within
Warrant was solicited by a member of the National Association of Securities
Dealers, Inc. if not solicited by an NASD member, please write "unsolicited" in
the space below. Unless otherwise indicated by listing the name of another NASD
member firm, it will be assumed that the exercise was solicited by Janney
Montgomery Scott Inc.

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                                  ______________________________________________
                                  (Name of NASD Member if other than
                                  Janney Montgomery Scott, Inc. or
                                  write "unsolicited.")

Dated: _______________________    x ____________________________________________

                                  ______________________________________________

                                  ______________________________________________
                                                       Address

                                  ______________________________________________
                                      Taxpayer Identification Number

                                  ______________________________________________
                                                Signature Guaranteed

                                  ______________________________________________

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                                   ASSIGNMENT

                     To Be Executed by the Registered Holder
                           in Order to Assign Warrants

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, __________________________________ hereby sells, assigns
and transfers unto

PLEASE INSERT SOCIAL SECURITY OR OTHER IDENTIFYING NUMBER

                             _________________________________________

                             _________________________________________

                             _________________________________________

                              [please print or type name and address]

______________________ of the Warrants represented by this Warrant Certificate,
and hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints____________________ Attorney
to transfer this Warrant Certificate on the books of the Company, with full
power of substitution in the premises.

Dated:                              x
      ______________________         ___________________________________________
                                              (Signature)

                                    ____________________________________________
                                            Name (Please Print)

                                    ____________________________________________
                                             (Address)

                                    ____________________________________________
                                    (Taxpayer Identification number)

                                    Signature Guaranteed

                                    ____________________________________________

THE SIGNATURE TO THIS ASSIGNMENT OR THE SUBSCRIPTION FORM MUST CORRESPOND TO THE
NAME AS WRITTEN UPON THE FACE OF THIS WARRANT CERTIFICATE IN EVERY PARTICULAR,
WITHOUT ALTERATION OR ENLARGEMENT OR ANY CHANGE WHATSOEVER, AND MUST BE
GUARANTEED BY A COMMERCIAL BANK OR TRUST COMPANY OR A MEMBER FIRM OF THE
AMERICAN STOCK EXCHANGE, NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, PACIFIC STOCK EXCHANGE OR
MIDWEST STOCK EXCHANGE.

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                                                                     EXHIBIT 4.5

                           CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT OF
             CERTIFICATE OF DESIGNATIONS, PREFERENCES, AND RIGHTS OF
                     SERIES A CONVERTIBLE PREFERRED STOCK OF
                         AMERICAN COUNTRY HOLDINGS INC.
                         (PURSUANT TO SECTION 151 OF THE
                        DELAWARE GENERAL CORPORATION LAW)

     AMERICAN COUNTRY HOLDINGS INC., a corporation organized and existing under
and by virtue of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware (the
"Corporation"), DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:

     FIRST, that the Certificate of Designations, Preferences, and Rights of
Series A Convertible Preferred Stock of the Corporation (the "Certificate of
Designations") be amended by deleting in its entirety Article Fourth and
substituting in lieu thereof the following:

         The holders of the Series A Preferred Stock shall be entitled to
         receive dividends on a quarterly basis at a rate of 6% per annum per
         share, payable out of any assets or funds legally available for that
         purpose and payable on January 1, April 1, July 1, October 1,
         commencing April 1, 2001. Such dividends shall be cumulative and shall
         accrue, whether or not declared by the Board of Directors, but shall be
         payable only when, as and if declared by the Board of Directors.
         Accrued but unpaid dividends will be paid upon conversion of the Series
         A Preferred Stock. The Corporation shall have the option to pay such
         dividends on the Series A Preferred Stock in additional Series A
         Preferred Stock or in cash. In no event, so long as any Series A
         Preferred Stock shall remain outstanding, shall any dividend whatsoever
         be declared or paid upon, nor shall any distribution be made upon any
         Pari Passu Securities or Common Stock, nor shall any such securities be
         purchased or redeemed by the Corporation nor shall any moneys be paid
         to or made available for a sinking fund for the purchase or redemption
         of any such securities (other than a distribution of Pari Passu
         Securities or Common Stock), without, in each such case, the written
         consent of the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of
         Series A Preferred Stock, voting together as a class.

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     SECOND, that the Certificate of Designations be amended by adding to the
first sentence of paragraph A of Article Fifth "or Common Stock" following "Pari
Passu Securities."

     THIRD, that the Certificate of Designations be amended by deleting in its
entirety paragraph A of Article Sixth and substituting in lieu thereof the
following:

         The outstanding shares of Series A Preferred Stock may be redeemed at
         the option of the Corporation (the "Optional Redemption"), in whole or
         in part, commencing two years after the Issue Date, out of funds
         legally available therefor. The Corporation may redeem the Series A
         Preferred Stock by payment in cash, for each share of Series A
         Preferred Stock to be redeemed, in an amount equal to the Liquidation
         Preference, as defined in Article V. The date on which the Liquidation
         Preference is payable is referred to herein as the "Series A Redemption
         Date." If less than all of the outstanding shares of Series A Preferred
         Stock are to be redeemed, the Corporation shall redeem a pro rata
         portion of the shares of Series A Preferred Stock held by each holder.

     FOURTH, that the Certificate of Designations be amended by deleting in its
entirety paragraph B of Article Seventh and substituting in lieu thereof the
following:

         The "Conversion Price" as used herein, shall initially be $1 3/4 per
         share, and shall be subject to adjustment as set forth in this
         Certificate. All such adjustments shall be successive.

     FIFTH, that the Certificate of Designations be amended by deleting from the
second sentence to subparagraph 5 of paragraph D of Article Seventh "2,000,000"
and inserting "2,5000,000."

     SIXTH, that this amendment to the Certificate of Designations was duly
adopted in accordance with the provisions of Section 151 of the General
Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

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     IN WITNESS WHEREOF, AMERICAN COUNTRY HOLDINGS INC. has caused this
Certificate to be executed by John A. Dore, Co-Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of the Corporation this 18th day of January, 2001.

                                    AMERICAN COUNTRY HOLDINGS INC.

                                    By: /s/ JOHN A. DORE
                                        -------------------
                                        John A. Dore
                                        Co-Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

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