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                                                                     EXHIBIT 4.6

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                          REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

                          Dated as of February 15, 2005

                                  By and Among

                               NTK HOLDINGS, INC.

                                       and

                         CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON LLC,
                                as Representative

                                       and

                         BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC
                                       and
                               UBS SECURITIES LLC
                              as Initial Purchasers

                     10 3/4% Senior Discount Notes due 2014

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                                TABLE OF CONTENTS

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Section 1.   Definitions....................................................................................  1

Section 2.   Exchange Offer.................................................................................  4

Section 3.   Shelf Registration.............................................................................  7

Section 4.   Additional Interest............................................................................  8

Section 5.   Registration Procedures........................................................................  9

Section 6.   Registration Expenses.......................................................................... 17

Section 7.   Indemnification................................................................................ 18

Section 8.   Rules 144 and 144A............................................................................. 21

Section 9.   Underwritten Registrations..................................................................... 21

Section 10.  Miscellaneous.................................................................................. 21
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                          REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

            This Registration Rights Agreement (this "Agreement") is dated as of
February 15, 2005, by and among NTK HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware corporation (the
"Company"), on the one hand, and CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON LLC (the
"Representative") and BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC and UBS SECURITIES LLC
(together with the Representative, the "Initial Purchasers"), on the other hand.

            This Agreement is entered into in connection with the Purchase
Agreement, dated as of February 10, 2005, as amended and supplemented, by and
among the Company and the Initial Purchasers (the "Purchase Agreement"),
relating to the offering of $403,000,000 aggregate principal amount at maturity
of 10 3/4% Senior Discount Notes due 2014 (the "Notes"). The execution and
delivery of this Agreement is a condition to the Initial Purchasers' obligation
to purchase the Notes under the Purchase Agreement.

            The parties hereby agree as follows:

      Section 1. Definitions

            As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the
following meanings:

            "Accreted Value" shall have the meaning assigned thereto in the
Indenture.

            "action" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7(c) hereof.

            "Additional Interest" shall have the meaning set forth in Section
4(a) hereof.

            "Additional Interest Accrual Date" shall have the meaning set forth
in Section 4(b) hereof.

            "Advice" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5 hereof.

            "Agreement" shall have the meaning set forth in the first
introductory paragraph hereto.

            "Applicable Period" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(b)
hereof.

            "Board of Directors" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5
hereof.

            "Business Day" shall mean a day that is not a Legal Holiday.

            "Commission" shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission.

            "Company" shall have the meaning set forth in the introductory
paragraph hereto and shall also include the Company's permitted successors and
assigns.

            "day" shall mean a calendar day.

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            "Delay Period" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5 hereof.

            "Effectiveness Period" shall have the meaning set forth in Section
3(b) hereof.

            "Exchange Act" shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

            "Exchange Notes" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)
hereof.

            "Exchange Offer" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(a)
hereof.

            "Exchange Offer Registration Statement" shall have the meaning set
forth in Section 2(a) hereof.

            "Holder" shall mean any holder of a Registrable Note or Registrable
Notes.

            "Indenture" shall mean the Indenture, dated as of February 15, 2005,
by and among the Company and U.S. Bank National Association, as trustee,
pursuant to which the Notes are being issued, as amended or supplemented from
time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.

            "Initial Purchasers" shall have the meaning set forth in the first
introductory paragraph hereof.

            "Inspectors" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(n)
hereof.

            "Issue Date" shall mean February 15, 2005, the date of original
issuance of the Notes.

            "Legal Holiday" shall mean a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which
banking institutions in New York, New York are required by law, regulation or
executive order to remain closed.

            "Losses" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7(a) hereof.

            "NASD" shall mean the National Association of Securities Dealers,
Inc.

            "Notes" shall have the meaning set forth in the second introductory
paragraph hereto.

            "Participant" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 7(a)
hereof.

            "Participating Broker-Dealer" shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 2(b) hereof.

            "Person" shall mean an individual, corporation, partnership, joint
venture association, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated limited
liability company, government or any agency or political subdivision thereof or
any other entity.

            "Private Exchange" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2(b)
hereof.

            "Private Exchange Notes" shall have the meaning set forth in Section
2(b) hereof.

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            "Prospectus" shall mean the prospectus included in any Registration
Statement (including, without limitation, any prospectus subject to completion
and a prospectus that includes any information previously omitted from a
prospectus filed as part of an effective registration statement in reliance upon
Rule 430A promulgated under the Securities Act), as amended or supplemented by
any prospectus supplement, and all other amendments and supplements to the
Prospectus, including post-effective amendments, and all material incorporated
by reference or deemed to be incorporated by reference in such Prospectus.

            "Purchase Agreement" shall have the meaning set forth in the second
introductory paragraph hereof.

            "Records" shall have the meaning set forth in Section 5(n) hereof.

            "Registrable Notes" shall mean each Note upon its original issuance
and at all times subsequent thereto, each Exchange Note as to which Section
2(c)(ii)(B) hereof is applicable upon original issuance and at all times
subsequent thereto and each Private Exchange Note upon original issuance thereof
and at all times subsequent thereto, in each case until (i) a Registration
Statement (other than, with respect to any Exchange Note as to which Section
2(c)(ii)(B) hereof is applicable, the Exchange Offer Registration Statement)
covering such Note, Exchange Note or Private Exchange Note has been declared
effective by the Commission and such Note, Exchange Note or such Private
Exchange Note, as the case may be, has been disposed of in accordance with such
effective Registration Statement, (ii) such Note has been exchanged pursuant to
the Exchange Offer for an Exchange Note or Exchange Notes that may be resold
without restriction under state and federal securities laws, (iii) such Note,
Exchange Note or Private Exchange Note, as the case may be, ceases to be
outstanding for purposes of the Indenture or (iv) such Note, Exchange Note or
Private Exchange Note has been sold in compliance with Rule 144 or is salable
pursuant to Rule 144(k).

            "Registration Default" shall have the meaning set forth in Section
4(a) hereof.

            "Registration Statement" shall mean any appropriate registration
statement of the Company covering any of the Registrable Notes filed with the
Commission under the Securities Act, and all amendments and supplements to any
such Registration Statement, including post-effective amendments, in each case
including the Prospectus contained therein, all exhibits thereto and all
material incorporated by reference therein.

            "Representative" shall have the meaning set forth in the first
introductory paragraph hereto.

            "Requesting Participating Broker-Dealer" shall have the meaning set
forth in Section 2(b) hereof.

            "Rule 144" shall mean Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act,
as such Rule may be amended from time to time, or any similar rule (other than
Rule 144A) or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission providing for
offers and sales of securities made in compliance therewith resulting in offers
and sales by subsequent holders that are not affiliates of an issuer of such
securities being free of the registration and prospectus delivery requirements
of the Securities Act.

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            "Rule 144A" shall mean Rule 144A promulgated under the Securities
Act, as such Rule may be amended from time to time, or any similar rule (other
than Rule 144) or regulation hereafter adopted by the Commission.

            "Rule 415" shall mean Rule 415 promulgated under the Securities Act,
as such Rule may be amended from time to time, or any similar rule or regulation
hereafter adopted by the Commission.

            "Securities Act" shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
and the rules and regulations of the Commission promulgated thereunder.

            "Shelf Filing Event" shall have the meaning set forth in Section
2(c) hereof.

            "Shelf Registration" shall have the meaning set forth in Section
3(a) hereof.

            "Shelf Registration Statement" shall mean a Registration Statement
filed in connection with a Shelf Registration.

            "TIA" shall mean the Trust Indenture Act of 1939, as amended.

            "Trustee" shall mean the trustee under the Indenture and the trustee
(if different than the trustee under the Indenture) under any indenture
governing the Exchange Notes and Private Exchange Notes.

            "underwritten registration" or "underwritten offering" shall mean a
registration in which securities of the Company are sold to an underwriter for
reoffering to the public.

      Section 2. Exchange Offer

            (a) Unless the Exchange Offer would violate applicable law or
interpretation of the staff of the Commission, the Company shall (i) file a
Registration Statement (the "Exchange Offer Registration Statement") with the
Commission on an appropriate registration form with respect to a registered
offer (the "Exchange Offer") to exchange any and all of the Registrable Notes
for a like aggregate principal amount at maturity of notes (the "Exchange
Notes") that are identical in all material respects to the Notes (except that
the Exchange Notes shall not contain restrictive legends, terms with respect to
transfer restrictions or Additional Interest upon a Registration Default) on or
prior to 270 days after the Issue Date, (ii) use its reasonable best efforts to
cause the Exchange Offer Registration Statement to be declared effective under
the Securities Act on or prior to 330 days after the Issue Date and (iii) use
its reasonable best efforts to consummate the Exchange Offer within 370 days
after the Issue Date. Upon the Exchange Offer Registration Statement being
declared effective by the Commission, the Company will offer the Exchange Notes
in exchange for surrender of the Notes. The Company shall keep the Exchange
Offer open for not less than 30 days (or longer if required by applicable law)
after the date notice of the Exchange Offer is mailed to Holders.

            Each Holder that participates in the Exchange Offer will be required
to represent to the Company in writing that (i) any Exchange Notes to be
acquired in the Exchange Offer will be acquired in the ordinary course of
business of the person receiving such Exchange Notes, whether or not such
recipient is such Holder itself, (ii) it has no arrangement or understanding
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distribution (within the meaning of the Securities Act) of the Exchange Notes in
violation of the provisions of the Securities Act, (iii) it is not an affiliate
of the Company as defined by Rule 405 of the Securities Act or, if it is such an
affiliate, it will comply with the registration and prospectus delivery
requirements of the Securities Act to the extent applicable, (iv) if such Holder
is not a broker-dealer, it is not engaged in, and does not intend to engage in,
a distribution of Exchange Notes and (v) if such Holder is a broker-dealer that
will receive Exchange Notes for its own account in exchange for Notes that were
acquired as a result of market-making or other trading activities, it will
comply with the applicable provision of the Securities Act (including, but not
limited to, the prospectus delivery requirements thereunder) in connection with
any resale of such Exchange Notes.

            (b) The Company and the Initial Purchasers acknowledge that the
staff of the Commission has taken the position that any broker-dealer that
elects to exchange Notes that were acquired by such broker-dealer for its own
account as a result of market-making or other trading activities for Exchange
Notes in the Exchange Offer (a "Participating Broker-Dealer") may be deemed to
be an "underwriter" within the meaning of the Securities Act and must deliver a
prospectus meeting the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any
resale of such Exchange Notes (other than a resale of an unsold allotment
resulting from the original offering of the Notes).

            The Company and the Initial Purchasers also acknowledge that the
staff of the Commission has taken the position that if the Prospectus contained
in the Exchange Offer Registration Statement includes a plan of distribution
containing a statement to the above effect and the means by which Participating
Broker-Dealers may resell the Exchange Notes, without naming the Participating
Broker-Dealers or specifying the amount of Exchange Notes owned by them, such
Prospectus may be delivered by Participating Broker-Dealers to satisfy their
prospectus delivery obligations under the Securities Act in connection with
resales of Exchange Notes for their own accounts, so long as the Prospectus
otherwise meets the requirements of the Securities Act.

            In light of the foregoing, if requested by a Participating
Broker-Dealer (a "Requesting Participating Broker-Dealer"), the Company agrees
to use its reasonable best efforts to keep the Exchange Offer Registration
Statement continuously effective for a period necessary to comply with
applicable law in connection with such resales but in no event more than 180
days after the date on which the Exchange Registration Statement is declared
effective, or such longer period if extended pursuant to any Delay Period in
accordance with the penultimate paragraph of Section 5 hereof (such period, the
"Applicable Period"), or such earlier date as each Requesting Participating
Broker-Dealer shall have notified the Company in writing that such Requesting
Participating Broker-Dealer has resold all Exchange Notes acquired by it in the
Exchange Offer. The Company shall include a plan of distribution in such
Exchange Offer Registration Statement that meets the requirements set forth in
the immediately preceding paragraph.

            If, prior to consummation of the Exchange Offer, the Initial
Purchasers or any other Holder holds any Notes acquired by it that have, or that
are reasonably likely to be determined to have, the status of an unsold
allotment in an initial distribution, or if any Holder is not entitled to
participate in the Exchange Offer, the Company upon the request of the Initial
Purchasers or any such Holder, as the case may be, shall simultaneously with the
delivery of the Exchange Notes in the Exchange Offer, issue and deliver to the
Initial Purchasers or any such Holder, as the case may be, in exchange (the
"Private Exchange") for such Notes held by the Initial Purchasers or any such
Holder a like principal amount at maturity of notes (the "Private Exchange
Notes") of the Company that are identical in all material respects to the
Exchange Notes except that the Private Exchange Notes may be subject to
restrictions on transfer and

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bear a legend to such effect. The Private Exchange Notes shall be issued
pursuant to the same indenture as the Exchange Notes and bear the same CUSIP
number as the Exchange Notes (if permitted by the CUSIP Service Bureau).

            Upon consummation of the Exchange Offer in accordance with this
Section 2, the Company shall have no further registration obligations other than
the Company's continuing registration obligations with respect to (i) Private
Exchange Notes, (ii) Exchange Notes held by Participating Broker-Dealers and
(iii) Notes or Exchange Notes as to which clause (c)(iv) of this Section 2
applies.

            In connection with the Exchange Offer, the Company shall:

            (1) mail or cause to be mailed to each Holder entitled to
      participate in the Exchange Offer a copy of the Prospectus forming part of
      the Exchange Offer Registration Statement, together with an appropriate
      letter of transmittal and related documents;

            (2) utilize the services of a depositary for the Exchange Offer with
      an address in the Borough of Manhattan, The City of New York;

            (3) permit Holders to withdraw tendered Notes at any time prior to
      the close of business, New York time, on the last Business Day on which
      the Exchange Offer shall remain open; and

            (4) otherwise comply in all material respects with all applicable
      laws, rules and regulations.

            As soon as practicable after the close of the Exchange Offer and the
Private Exchange, if any, the Company shall:

            (1) accept for exchange all Notes validly tendered and not validly
      withdrawn by the Holders pursuant to the Exchange Offer and the Private
      Exchange, if any;

            (2) deliver or cause to be delivered to the Trustee for cancellation
      all Registrable Notes so accepted for exchange; and

            (3) cause the Trustee to authenticate and deliver promptly to each
      such Holder of Notes, Exchange Notes or Private Exchange Notes, as the
      case may be, equal in principal amount at maturity to the Registrable
      Notes of such Holder so accepted for exchange; provided that, in the case
      of any Notes held in global form by a depositary, authentication and
      delivery to such depositary of one or more replacement Notes in global
      form in an equivalent principal amount thereto for the account of such
      Holders in accordance with the Indenture shall satisfy such authentication
      and delivery requirement.

            The Exchange Offer and the Private Exchange shall not be subject to
any conditions, other than that (i) the Exchange Offer or Private Exchange, as
the case may be, does not violate applicable law or any applicable
interpretation of the staff of the Commission, (ii) no action or proceeding
shall have been instituted or threatened in any court or by any governmental
agency which might materially impair the ability of the Company to proceed with
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adverse development shall have occurred in any existing action or proceeding
with respect to the Company and (iii) all governmental approvals shall have been
obtained, which approvals the Company deems necessary for the consummation of
the Exchange Offer or Private Exchange.

            The Exchange Notes and the Private Exchange Notes shall be issued
under (i) the Indenture or (ii) an indenture identical in all material respects
to the Indenture (in either case, with such changes as are necessary to comply
with any requirements of the Commission to effect or maintain the qualification
thereof under the TIA) and which, in either case, has been qualified under the
TIA and shall provide that (a) the Exchange Notes shall not be subject to the
transfer restrictions set forth in the Indenture and (b) the Private Exchange
Notes shall be subject to the transfer restrictions set forth in the Indenture.
The Indenture or such indenture shall provide that the Exchange Notes, the
Private Exchange Notes and the Notes shall vote and consent together on all
matters as one class and that none of the Exchange Notes, the Private Exchange
Notes or the Notes will have the right to vote or consent as a separate class on
any matter.

            (c) In the event that (i) because of any change in law or in
currently prevailing interpretations of the staff of the Commission, the Company
is not permitted to effect the Exchange Offer, or (ii) the Initial Purchasers or
any other Holder of Notes notifies the Company in writing within 20 days after
the consummation of the Exchange Offer that (A) it is prohibited by law or
Commission policy from participating in the Exchange Offer, (B) that it may not
resell the Exchange Notes acquired by it in the Exchange Offer to the public
without delivering a prospectus and the prospectus contained in the Exchange
Offer Registration Statement is not appropriate or available for such resales or
(C) that it is a broker-dealer and owns Notes acquired directly from the Company
or an affiliate of the Company (each such event referred to in clauses (i) or
(ii) of this sentence, a "Shelf Filing Event"), then the Company shall file a
Shelf Registration pursuant to Section 3 hereof.

      Section 3. Shelf Registration

            If at any time a Shelf Filing Event shall occur, then:

            (a) Shelf Registration. The Company shall file with the Commission a
      Registration Statement for an offering to be made on a continuous basis
      pursuant to Rule 415 covering all of the Registrable Notes not exchanged
      in the Exchange Offer, Private Exchange Notes and Exchange Notes as to
      which Section 2(c)(ii)(B) is applicable (the "Shelf Registration"). The
      Shelf Registration shall be on an appropriate form permitting registration
      of such Registrable Notes for resale by Holders in the manner or manners
      designated by them (including, without limitation, one or more
      underwritten offerings). The Company shall not permit any securities other
      than the Registrable Notes to be included in the Shelf Registration.

            (b) The Company shall (x) cause the Shelf Registration to be filed
      with the Commission on or prior to 180 days after the date of the Shelf
      Filing Event giving rise to the obligation to file the Shelf Registration
      and shall use their reasonable best efforts to cause the Shelf
      Registration to be declared effective under the Securities Act on or prior
      to the 240th day after the date of the Shelf Filing Event giving rise to
      the obligation to file the Shelf Registration and (y) to keep the Shelf
      Registration continuously effective under the Securities Act for the
      period ending on the date which is two years from the Issue Date, subject
      to extension pursuant to the penultimate paragraph of Section 5 hereof
      (the "Effectiveness Period"), or such shorter period ending when

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      all Registrable Notes covered by the Shelf Registration have been sold in
      the manner set forth and as contemplated in the Shelf Registration;
      provided, however, that (i) the Effectiveness Period in respect of the
      Shelf Registration shall be extended to the extent required to permit
      dealers to comply with the applicable prospectus delivery requirements of
      Rule 174 under the Securities Act and as otherwise provided herein and
      (ii) the Company may suspend the effectiveness of the Shelf Registration
      by written notice to the Holders solely (A) as a result of the filing of a
      post-effective amendment to the Shelf Registration to incorporate annual
      audited financial information with respect to the Company where such
      post-effective amendment is not yet effective and needs to be declared
      effective to permit Holders to use the related Prospectus or (B) to the
      extent and for so long as permitted by the penultimate paragraph of
      Section 5.

            (c) Supplements and Amendments. The Company agrees to supplement or
      make amendments to the Shelf Registration as and when required by the
      rules, regulations or instructions applicable to the registration form
      used for such Shelf Registration or by the Securities Act or rules and
      regulations thereunder for shelf registration, or if reasonably requested
      by the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount at maturity of
      the Registrable Notes covered by such Registration Statement or by any
      underwriter of such Registrable Notes.

      Section 4. Additional Interest

            (a) The Company and the Initial Purchasers agree that the Holders
will suffer damages if the Company fails to fulfill their obligations under
Section 2 or Section 3 hereof and that it would not be feasible to ascertain the
extent of such damages with precision. Accordingly, the Company agrees that if:

            (i) the Exchange Offer Registration Statement has not been filed on
      or prior to the 270th day following the Issue Date, or, if that day is not
      a Business Day, the next day that is a Business Day; or

            (ii) the Exchange Offer Registration Statement has not been declared
      effective on or prior to the 330th day following the Issue Date, or, if
      that day is not a Business Day, the next day that is a Business Day; or

            (iii) the Exchange Offer is not consummated on or prior to the 370th
      day following the Issue Date, or, if that day is not a Business Day, the
      next day that is a Business Day; or

            (iv) the Shelf Registration is required to be filed but is not
      declared effective within the time period specified in Section 3(b)(x), or

            (v) the Exchange Offer Registration Statement or Shelf Registration
      Statement, as the case may be, is declared effective by the date required
      hereunder but thereafter ceases to be effective or usable during the
      Applicable Period, with respect to an Exchange Offer Registration
      Statement, or the Effectiveness Period, with respect to a Shelf
      Registration Statement (unless the Exchange Offer Registration Statement
      or Shelf Registration Statement, as the case may be, ceases to be
      effective or usable as specifically permitted by the penultimate paragraph
      of Section 5 hereof),

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(each such event referred to in clauses (i)-(v) a "Registration Default"),
additional interest ("Additional Interest") will accrue on the Accreted Value of
the affected Registrable Notes. The rate of Additional Interest will be 0.25%
per annum for the first 90-day period immediately following the occurrence of a
Registration Default, increasing by an additional 0.25% per annum with respect
to each subsequent 90-day period up to a maximum amount of Additional Interest
of 1.00% per annum, from and including the date on which any such Registration
Default shall occur to, but excluding, the earlier of (1) the date on which all
Registration Defaults have been cured or (2) the date on which such Registrable
Note ceases to be a Registrable Note or otherwise become freely transferable by
Holders other than affiliates of the Company without further registration under
the Securities Act. If, after the cure of all Registration Defaults then in
effect, there is a subsequent Registration Default, the rate of Additional
Interest for such subsequent Registration Default shall initially be 0.25%
regardless of the rate in effect with respect to any prior Registration Default
at the time of cure of such Registration Default and shall increase in the
manner and be subject to the maximum Additional Interest rate contained in the
preceding sentence.

            Notwithstanding the foregoing, (1) the amount of Additional Interest
payable shall not increase because more than one Registration Default has
occurred and is pending and (2) a Holder of Registrable Notes that is not
entitled to the benefits of the Shelf Registration (e.g., such Holder has not
elected to include information) shall not be entitled to Additional Interest
with respect to a Registration Default that pertains to the Shelf Registration.

            (b) So long as Notes remain outstanding, the Company shall notify
the Trustee within five Business Days after each and every date on which an
event occurs in respect of which Additional Interest shall accrue. The amount of
Additional Interest for Registrable Notes will be determined on the basis of a
360-day year comprised of twelve 30-day months and, in the case of a partial
month, the actual number of days elapsed. All Additional Interest that accrues
on any Registrable Note prior to September 1, 2009 will be payable on the date
on which the entire principal amount of such Note is repaid. Any Additional
Interest that accrues on any Registrable Note prior to such time will be
compounded semiannually on the dates on which the accreted principal of the
Notes compounds (each an "Additional Interest Accrual Date"), and to the extent
compounded will accrue interest at the rate applicable to the Notes. All
Additional Interest accruing on the Notes on or after September 1, 2009, as well
as all interest accruing on or after September 1, 2009 on the amount which has
accrued in respect of Additional Interest as of September 1, 2009, will be
payable in cash on each scheduled interest payment date for the Notes.

      Section 5. Registration Procedures

            In connection with the filing of any Registration Statement pursuant
to Section 2 or 3 hereof, the Company shall effect such registrations to permit
the sale of the securities covered thereby in accordance with the intended
method or methods of disposition thereof, and pursuant thereto and in connection
with any Registration Statement filed by the Company hereunder, the Company
shall:

            (a) Use its reasonable best efforts to prepare and file with the
      Commission the Registration Statement or Registration Statements
      prescribed by Section 2 or 3 hereof, and use its reasonable best efforts
      to cause each such Registration Statement to become effective and remain
      effective as provided herein; provided, however, that, if (1) such filing
      is pursuant to Section 3 hereof, or (2) a Prospectus contained in the
      Exchange Offer Registration Statement filed pursuant to Section 2 hereof
      is required to be delivered under the Securities Act by any Participating
      Broker-Dealer who seeks to sell Exchange Notes during the Applicable
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      fore filing any Registration Statement or Prospectus or any amendments or
      supplements thereto, the Company shall furnish to and afford the Holders
      of the Registrable Notes covered by such Registration Statement or each
      such Participating Broker-Dealer, as the case may be, their counsel (if
      requested by any such person) and the managing underwriters, if any, a
      reasonable opportunity to review copies of all such documents (including
      copies of any documents to be incorporated by reference therein and all
      exhibits thereto) proposed to be filed (in each case at least five
      Business Days prior to such filing). The Company shall not file any
      Registration Statement or Prospectus or any amendments or supplements
      thereto if the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount of the
      Registrable Notes covered by such Registration Statement, or any such
      Participating Broker-Dealer, as the case may be, their counsel, or the
      managing underwriters, if any, shall reasonably object.

            (b) Use its reasonable best efforts to prepare and file with the
      Commission such amendments and post-effective amendments to each Shelf
      Registration or Exchange Offer Registration Statement, as the case may be,
      as may be necessary to keep such Registration Statement continuously
      effective for the Effectiveness Period or the Applicable Period, as the
      case may be; cause the related Prospectus to be supplemented by any
      Prospectus supplement required by applicable law, and as so supplemented
      to be filed pursuant to Rule 424 (or any similar provisions then in force)
      promulgated under the Securities Act; and comply with the applicable
      provisions of the Securities Act and the Exchange Act with respect to the
      disposition of all securities covered by such Registration Statement as so
      amended or in such Prospectus as so supplemented and with respect to the
      subsequent resale of any securities being sold by a Participating
      Broker-Dealer covered by any such Prospectus, in each case, in accordance
      with the intended methods of distribution set forth in such Registration
      Statement or Prospectus, as so amended or supplemented.

            (c) If (1) a Shelf Registration is filed pursuant to Section 3
      hereof, or (2) a Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration
      Statement filed pursuant to Section 2 hereof is required to be delivered
      under the Securities Act by any Participating Broker-Dealer who seeks to
      sell Exchange Notes during the Applicable Period relating thereto from
      whom the Company has received written notice that such Participating
      Broker-Dealer will be a Participating Broker-Dealer in the applicable
      Exchange Offer, notify the selling Holders of Registrable Notes, or each
      such Participating Broker-Dealer, as the case may be, their counsel (if
      such counsel is known to the Company) and the managing underwriters, if
      any, as promptly as possible, and, if requested by any such Person,
      confirm such notice in writing, (i) when a Prospectus or any Prospectus
      supplement or post-effective amendment has been filed, and, with respect
      to a Registration Statement or any post-effective amendment, when the same
      has become effective under the Securities Act (including in such notice a
      written statement that any Holder may, upon request, obtain, at the sole
      expense of the Company, one conformed copy of such Registration Statement
      or post-effective amendment including financial statements and schedules,
      documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated by reference and
      exhibits), (ii) of the issuance by the Commission of any stop order
      suspending the effectiveness of a Registration Statement or of any order
      preventing or suspending the use of any preliminary prospectus or the
      initiation of any proceedings for that purpose, (iii) if at any time when
      a Prospectus is required by the Securities Act to be delivered in
      connection with sales of the Registrable Notes or resales of Exchange
      Notes by Participating Broker-Dealers the representations and warranties
      of the Company contained in any agreement (including any underwriting
      agreement) contemplated by Section 5(m) hereof cease to be true and
      correct in all material respects, (iv) of the receipt by the Company of
      any notification

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      with respect to the suspension of the qualification or exemption from
      qualification of a Registration Statement or any of the Registrable Notes
      or the Exchange Notes for offer or sale in any jurisdiction, or the
      initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose, (v) of the
      happening of any event, the existence of any condition or any information
      becoming known to any Company that makes any statement made in such
      Registration Statement or related Prospectus or any document incorporated
      or deemed to be incorporated therein by reference untrue in any material
      respect or that requires the making of any changes in or amendments or
      supplements to such Registration Statement, Prospectus or documents so
      that, in the case of the Registration Statement, it will not contain any
      untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any material fact
      required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein
      not misleading, and that in the case of the Prospectus, it will not
      contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state any
      material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the
      statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they
      were made, not misleading, and (vi) of the Company's determination that a
      post-effective amendment to a Registration Statement would be appropriate.

            (d) If (1) a Shelf Registration is filed pursuant to Section 3
      hereof, or (2) a Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration
      Statement filed pursuant to Section 2 hereof is required to be delivered
      under the Securities Act by any Participating Broker-Dealer who seeks to
      sell Exchange Notes during the Applicable Period, use their reasonable
      best efforts to prevent the issuance of any order suspending the
      effectiveness of a Registration Statement or of any order preventing or
      suspending the use of a Prospectus or suspending the qualification (or
      exemption from qualification) of any of the Registrable Notes or the
      Exchange Notes, as the case may be, for sale in any jurisdiction, and, if
      any such order is issued, to use their reasonable best efforts to obtain
      the withdrawal of any such order at the earliest practicable moment.

            (e) If (1) a Shelf Registration is filed pursuant to Section 3
      hereof or (2) a Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration
      Statement filed pursuant to Section 2 hereof is required to be delivered
      under the Securities Act by any Participating Broker-Dealer who seeks to
      sell Exchange Notes during the Applicable Period and if requested by the
      managing underwriter or underwriters (if any), the Holders of a majority
      in aggregate principal amount at maturity of the Registrable Notes covered
      by such Registration Statement or any Participating Broker-Dealer, as the
      case may be, (i) promptly incorporate in such Registration Statement or
      Prospectus a prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment such
      information as the managing underwriter or underwriters (if any), such
      Holders or any Participating Broker-Dealer, as the case may be (based upon
      advice of counsel), determine is reasonably required to be included
      therein and (ii) make all required filings of such prospectus supplement
      or such post-effective amendment as soon as practicable after the Company
      has received notification of the matters to be incorporated in such
      prospectus supplement or post-effective amendment; provided, however, that
      the Company shall not be required to take any action hereunder that would,
      in the written opinion of counsel to the Company, violate applicable laws.

            (f) If (1) a Shelf Registration is filed pursuant to Section 3
      hereof or (2) a Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration
      Statement filed pursuant to Section 2 hereof is required to be delivered
      under the Securities Act by any Participating Broker-Dealer who seeks to
      sell Exchange Notes during the Applicable Period, furnish to each selling
      Holder of Registrable Notes or each such Participating Broker-Dealer, as
      the case may be, who so requests, their

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      counsel (if requested by any such person) and each managing underwriter,
      if any, at the sole expense of the Company, one conformed copy of the
      Registration Statement or Registration Statements and each post-effective
      amendment thereto, including financial statements and schedules, and, if
      requested, all documents incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein
      by reference and all exhibits.

            (g) If (1) a Shelf Registration is filed pursuant to Section 3
      hereof, or (2) a Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration
      Statement filed pursuant to Section 2 hereof is required to be delivered
      under the Securities Act by any Participating Broker-Dealer who seeks to
      sell Exchange Notes during the Applicable Period, deliver to each selling
      Holder of Registrable Notes or each such Participating Broker-Dealer, as
      the case may be, their respective counsel (if requested) and the
      underwriters, if any, at the sole expense of the Company, as many copies
      of the Prospectus or Prospectuses (including each form of preliminary
      prospectus) and each amendment or supplement thereto and any documents
      incorporated by reference therein as such Persons may reasonably request;
      and, subject to the last paragraph of this Section 5, the Company hereby
      consents to the use of such Prospectus and each amendment or supplement
      thereto by each of the selling Holders of Registrable Notes or each such
      Participating Broker-Dealer, as the case may be, and the underwriters or
      agents, if any, and dealers (if any), in connection with the offering and
      sale of the Registrable Notes covered by, or the sale by Participating
      Broker-Dealers of the Exchange Notes pursuant to, such Prospectus and any
      amendment or supplement thereto.

            (h) Prior to any public offering of Registrable Notes or Exchange
      Notes or any delivery of a Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer
      Registration Statement by any Participating Broker-Dealer who seeks to
      sell Exchange Notes during the Applicable Period, use their reasonable
      best efforts to register or qualify, and to cooperate with the selling
      Holders of Registrable Notes or each such Participating Broker-Dealer, as
      the case may be, the managing underwriter or underwriters, if any, and
      their respective counsel in connection with the registration or
      qualification (or exemption from such registration or qualification) of
      such Registrable Notes or Exchange Notes, as the case may be, for offer
      and sale under the securities or Blue Sky laws of such jurisdictions
      within the United States as any selling Holder, Participating
      Broker-Dealer, or the managing underwriter or underwriters reasonably
      request; provided, however, that where Exchange Notes or Registrable Notes
      are offered other than through an underwritten offering, the Company
      agrees to cause the Company's counsel to perform Blue Sky investigations
      and file registrations and qualifications required to be filed pursuant to
      this Section 5(h); keep each such registration or qualification (or
      exemption therefrom) effective during the period such Registration
      Statement is required to be kept effective and do any and all other acts
      or things reasonably necessary or advisable to enable the disposition in
      such jurisdictions of such Exchange Notes or Registrable Notes covered by
      the applicable Registration Statement; provided, however, that the Company
      shall not be required to (A) qualify generally to do business in any
      jurisdiction where it is not then so qualified, (B) take any action that
      would subject it to general service of process in any such jurisdiction
      where it is not then so subject or (C) subject itself to taxation in
      excess of a nominal dollar amount in any such jurisdiction where it is not
      then so subject.

            (i) If a Shelf Registration is filed pursuant to Section 3 hereof,
      cooperate with the selling Holders of Registrable Notes and the managing
      underwriter or underwriters, if any, to facilitate the timely preparation
      and delivery of certificates representing Registrable Notes to be sold,
      which certificates shall not bear any restrictive legends and shall be in
      a form eligible for

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      deposit with The Depository Trust Company; and enable such Registrable
      Notes to be in such denominations and registered in such names as the
      managing underwriter or underwriters, if any, or selling Holders may
      request at least two Business Days prior to any sale of such Registrable
      Notes.

            (j) Use their reasonable best efforts to cause the Registrable Notes
      or Exchange Notes covered by any Registration Statement to be registered
      with or approved by such other governmental agencies or authorities as may
      be reasonably necessary to enable the seller or sellers thereof or the
      underwriter or underwriters, if any, to consummate the disposition of such
      Registrable Notes or Exchange Notes, except as may be required solely as a
      consequence of the nature of such selling Holder's business, in which case
      the Company will cooperate in all reasonable respects with the filing of
      such Registration Statement and the granting of such approvals.

            (k) If (1) a Shelf Registration is filed pursuant to Section 3
      hereof, or (2) a Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration
      Statement filed pursuant to Section 2 hereof is required to be delivered
      under the Securities Act by any Participating Broker-Dealer who seeks to
      sell Exchange Notes during the Applicable Period, upon the occurrence of
      any event contemplated by Section 5(c)(v) or 5(c)(vi) hereof, as promptly
      as practicable prepare and (subject to Section 5(a) and the penultimate
      paragraph of this Section 5) file with the Commission, at the sole expense
      of the Company, a supplement or post-effective amendment to the
      Registration Statement or a supplement to the related Prospectus or any
      document incorporated or deemed to be incorporated therein by reference,
      or file any other required document so that, as thereafter delivered to
      the purchasers of the Registrable Notes being sold thereunder or to the
      purchasers of the Exchange Notes to whom such Prospectus will be delivered
      by a Participating Broker-Dealer, any such Prospectus will not contain an
      untrue statement of a material fact or omit to state a material fact
      required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein,
      in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not
      misleading.

            (l) Prior to the effective date of the first Registration Statement
      relating to the Registrable Notes, (i) provide the Trustee with
      certificates for the Registrable Notes in a form eligible for deposit with
      The Depository Trust Company and (ii) provide a CUSIP number for the
      Registrable Notes.

            (m) In connection with any underwritten offering of Registrable
      Notes pursuant to a Shelf Registration, enter into an underwriting
      agreement as is customary in underwritten offerings of debt securities
      similar to the Notes and take all such other actions as are reasonably
      requested by the managing underwriter or underwriters in order to expedite
      or facilitate the registration or the disposition of such Registrable
      Notes and, whether or not such offering is an underwritten offering, (i)
      make such representations and warranties to the managing underwriter or
      underwriters, if any, (and to any Holder that has advised the Company that
      such Holder may have a "due diligence" defense under Section 11 of the
      Securities Act), and covenants with, the underwriters with respect to the
      business of the Company and its subsidiaries (including any acquired
      business, properties or entity, if applicable), and the Registration
      Statement, Prospectus and documents, if any, incorporated or deemed to be
      incorporated by reference therein, in each case, as are customarily made
      by Company to underwriters in underwritten offerings of debt securities
      similar to the Notes, and confirm the same in writing if and when
      reasonably requested; (ii) use their reasonable best efforts to obtain the
      written opinions of counsel to the Company and written updates thereof

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      in form, scope and substance reasonably satisfactory to the managing
      underwriter or underwriters, addressed to the underwriters (and to any
      Holder that has advised the Company that such Holder may have a "due
      diligence" defense under Section 11 of the Securities Act) covering the
      matters customarily covered in opinions requested in underwritten
      offerings and such other matters as may be reasonably requested by the
      managing underwriter or underwriters; (iii) use their reasonable best
      efforts to obtain "cold comfort" letters and updates thereof in form,
      scope and substance reasonably satisfactory to the managing underwriter or
      underwriters from the independent certified public accountants of the
      Company (and, if necessary, any other independent certified public
      accountants of any subsidiary of the Company or of any business acquired
      by the Company for which financial statements and financial data are, or
      are required to be, included or incorporated by reference in the
      Registration Statement), addressed to each of the underwriters (and to any
      Holder that has advised the Company that such Holder may have a "due
      diligence" defense under Section 11 of the Securities Act), such letters
      to be in customary form and covering matters of the type customarily
      covered in "cold comfort" letters in connection with underwritten
      offerings; and (iv) if an underwriting agreement is entered into, the same
      shall contain indemnification provisions and procedures no less favorable
      than those set forth in Section 7 hereof (or such other provisions and
      procedures acceptable to Holders of a majority in aggregate principal
      amount of Registrable Notes covered by such Registration Statement and the
      managing underwriter or underwriters or agents) with respect to all
      parties to be indemnified pursuant to said Section; provided that the
      Company shall not be required to provide indemnification to any
      underwriter selected in accordance with the provisions of Section 9 hereof
      with respect to information relating to such underwriter furnished in
      writing to the Company by or on behalf of such underwriter expressly for
      inclusion in such Registration Statement; provided, further that the
      Company shall not be required to enter into more than two such
      underwriting agreements with respect to underwritten offerings of
      Registrable Notes. The above shall be done at each closing under such
      underwriting agreement, or as and to the extent required thereunder.

            (n) If (1) a Shelf Registration is filed pursuant to Section 3
      hereof or (2) a Prospectus contained in the Exchange Offer Registration
      Statement filed pursuant to Section 2 hereof is required to be delivered
      under the Securities Act by any Participating Broker-Dealer who seeks to
      sell Exchange Notes during the Applicable Period, make available for
      inspection by any selling Holder of such Registrable Notes being sold or
      each such Participating Broker-Dealer, as the case may be, any underwriter
      participating in any such disposition of Registrable Notes, if any, and
      any attorney, accountant or other agent retained by any such selling
      Holder or each such Participating Broker-Dealer, as the case may be, or
      underwriter (collectively, the "Inspectors"), at the offices where
      normally kept, during reasonable business hours, all financial and other
      records, pertinent corporate documents and instruments of the Company and
      its subsidiaries (collectively, the "Records") as shall be reasonably
      necessary to enable them to exercise any applicable due diligence
      responsibilities, and cause the officers, directors and employees of the
      Company and its subsidiaries to supply all information reasonably
      requested by any such Inspector in connection with such Registration
      Statement and Prospectus. Each Inspector shall agree in writing that it
      will keep the Records confidential and that it will not disclose, or use
      in connection with any market transactions in violation of any applicable
      securities laws, any Records that the Company determines, in good faith,
      to be confidential and that it notifies the Inspectors in writing are
      confidential unless (i) the disclosure of such Records is necessary to
      avoid or correct a misstatement or omission in such Registration Statement
      or Prospectus, (ii) the release of such Records is ordered pursuant to a
      subpoena or other order from a court of competent jurisdiction, (iii)
      disclosure of

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      such information is necessary or advisable in the opinion of counsel for
      an Inspector in connection with any action, claim, suit or proceeding,
      directly or indirectly, involving or potentially involving such Inspector
      and arising out of, based upon, relating to, or involving this Agreement
      or the Purchase Agreement, or any transactions contemplated hereby or
      thereby or arising hereunder or thereunder, or (iv) the information in
      such Records has been made generally available to the public; provided,
      however, that (i) each Inspector shall agree to use reasonable best
      efforts to provide notice to the Company of the potential disclosure of
      any information by such Inspector pursuant to clause (i), (ii) or (iii) of
      this sentence to permit the Company to obtain a protective order (or waive
      the provisions of this paragraph (n)) and (ii) each such Inspector shall
      take such actions as are reasonably necessary to protect the
      confidentiality of such information (if practicable) to the extent such
      action is otherwise not inconsistent with, an impairment of or in
      derogation of the rights and interests of the Holder or any Inspector.

            (o) Provide an indenture trustee for the Registrable Notes or the
      Exchange Notes, as the case may be, and cause the Indenture or the trust
      indenture provided for in Section 2(a) hereof to be qualified under the
      TIA not later than the effective date of the Exchange Offer or the first
      Registration Statement relating to the Registrable Notes; and in
      connection therewith, cooperate with the trustee under any such indenture
      and the Holders of the Registrable Notes or Exchange Notes, as applicable,
      to effect such changes to such indenture as may be required for such
      indenture to be so qualified in accordance with the terms of the TIA; and
      execute, and use their reasonable best efforts to cause such trustee to
      execute, all documents as may be required to effect such changes, and all
      other forms and documents required to be filed with the Commission to
      enable such indenture to be so qualified in a timely manner.

            (p) Comply with all applicable rules and regulations of the
      Commission and make generally available to the Company's securityholders
      earnings statements satisfying the provisions of Section 11(a) of the
      Securities Act and Rule 158 thereunder (or any similar rule promulgated
      under the Securities Act) after the end of any 12-month period no later
      than the number of days permitted for the filing of Quarterly Reports on
      Form 10-Q by accelerated filers (as defined in the Exchange Act) (or after
      the end of any 12-month period if such period is a fiscal year no later
      than the number of days permitted for the filing of Annual Reports on Form
      10-K by accelerated filers (as defined in the Exchange Act)) (i)
      commencing at the end of any fiscal quarter in which Registrable Notes or
      Exchange Notes are sold to underwriters in a firm commitment or best
      efforts underwritten offering and (ii) if not sold to underwriters in such
      an offering, commencing on the first day of the first fiscal quarter of
      the Company after the effective date of a Registration Statement, which
      statements shall cover said 12-month periods consistent with the
      requirements of Rule 158.

            (q) Upon the request of a Holder, upon consummation of the Exchange
      Offer or a Private Exchange, use their reasonable best efforts to obtain
      an opinion of counsel to the Company, in a form customary for underwritten
      transactions, addressed to the Trustee for the benefit of all Holders of
      Registrable Notes participating in the Exchange Offer or the Private
      Exchange, as the case may be, that the Exchange Notes or Private Exchange
      Notes, as the case may be, and the related indenture constitute legal,
      valid and binding obligations of the Company, enforceable against the
      Company in accordance with its respective terms, subject to customary
      exceptions and qualifications.

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            (r) If the Exchange Offer or a Private Exchange is to be
      consummated, upon delivery of the Registrable Notes by Holders to the
      Company (or to such other Person as directed by the Company) in exchange
      for the Exchange Notes or the Private Exchange Notes, as the case may be,
      mark, or cause to be marked, on such Registrable Notes that such
      Registrable Notes are being cancelled in exchange for the Exchange Notes
      or the Private Exchange Notes, as the case may be; provided that in no
      event shall such Registrable Notes be marked as paid or otherwise
      satisfied.

            (s) Cooperate with each seller of Registrable Notes covered by any
      Registration Statement and each underwriter, if any, participating in the
      disposition of such Registrable Notes and their respective counsel in
      connection with any filings required to be made with the NASD.

            (t) Use their reasonable best efforts to take all other steps
      reasonably necessary or advisable to effect the registration of the
      Exchange Notes and/or Registrable Notes covered by a Registration
      Statement contemplated hereby.

            The Company may require each seller of Registrable Notes or Exchange
Notes as to which any registration is being effected to furnish to the Company
such information regarding such seller and the distribution of such Registrable
Notes or Exchange Notes as the Company may, from time to time, reasonably
request. The Company may exclude from such registration the Registrable Notes of
any seller so long as such seller fails to furnish such information within a
reasonable time after receiving such request and, in the event of such an
exclusion, the Company shall have no further obligation under this Agreement
(including, without limitation, the obligations under Section 4) with respect to
such seller or any subsequent Holder of such Registrable Notes. Each seller as
to which any Shelf Registration is being effected agrees to furnish promptly to
the Company all information required to be disclosed in order to make any
information previously furnished to the Company by such seller not materially
misleading.

            If any such Registration Statement refers to any Holder by name or
otherwise as the holder of any securities of the Company, then such Holder shall
have the right to require (i) the insertion therein of language, in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to such Holder, to the effect that the holding
by such Holder of such securities is not to be construed as a recommendation by
such Holder of the investment quality of the securities covered thereby and that
such holding does not imply that such Holder will assist in meeting any future
financial requirements of the Company, or (ii) in the event that such reference
to such Holder by name or otherwise is not required by the Securities Act or any
similar federal statute then in force, the deletion of the reference to such
Holder in any amendment or supplement to the applicable Registration Statement
filed or prepared subsequent to the time that such reference ceases to be
required.

            Each Holder of Registrable Notes and each Participating
Broker-Dealer agrees by acquisition of such Registrable Notes or Exchange Notes
that, upon the Company providing notice to such Holder or Participating
Broker-Dealer, as the case may be, (x) of the happening of any event of the kind
described in Section 5(c)(ii), 5(c)(iii), 5(c)(iv), or 5(c)(v) hereof, or (y)
that the Board of Directors of the Company (the "Board of Directors") has
resolved that the Company has a bona fide business purpose for doing so, then,
upon providing such notice (which shall refer to the penultimate paragraph of
this Section 5), the Company may delay the filing or the effectiveness of the
Exchange Offer Registration Statement or the Shelf Registration (if not then
filed or effective, as applicable) and shall not be required to maintain the
effectiveness thereof or amend or supplement the Exchange Offer Registration
Statement or

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the Shelf Registration, in all cases, for a period (a "Delay Period") expiring
upon the earlier to occur of (i) in the case of the immediately preceding clause
(x), such Holder's or Participating Broker-Dealer's receipt of the copies of the
supplemented or amended Prospectus contemplated by Section 5(k) hereof or until
it is advised in writing (the "Advice") by the Company that the use of the
applicable Prospectus may be resumed, and has received copies of any amendments
or supplements thereto or (ii) in the case of the immediately preceding clause
(y), the date which is the earlier of (A) the date on which such business
purpose ceases to interfere with the Company's obligations to file or maintain
the effectiveness of any such Registration Statement pursuant to this Agreement
or (B) 60 days after the Company notifies the Holders of such good faith
determination. There shall not be more than 60 days of Delay Periods during any
12-month period. The maximum length of the Applicable Period set forth in
Section 2(b) shall be extended by a number of days equal to the number of days
during any Delay Period. Any Delay Period will not alter the obligations of the
Company to pay Additional Interest under the circumstances set forth in Section
4 hereof.

            Each Holder or Participating Broker-Dealer, by its acceptance of any
Registrable Note, agrees that during any Delay Period, each Holder or
Participating Broker-Dealer will discontinue disposition of such Notes or
Exchange Notes covered by such Registration Statement or Prospectus or Exchange
Notes to be sold by such Holder or Participating Broker-Dealer, as the case may
be.

      Section 6. Registration Expenses

            All fees and expenses incident to the performance of or compliance
with this Agreement by the Company (other than any underwriting discounts or
commissions) shall be borne by the Company, whether or not the Exchange Offer
Registration Statement or the Shelf Registration is filed or becomes effective
or the Exchange Offer is consummated, including, without limitation, (i) all
registration and filing fees (including, without limitation, fees and expenses
of compliance with state securities or Blue Sky laws (including, without
limitation, reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel in connection with Blue
Sky qualifications of the Registrable Notes or Exchange Notes and determination
of the eligibility of the Registrable Notes or Exchange Notes for investment
under the laws of such jurisdictions (x) where the holders of Registrable Notes
are located, in the case of an Exchange Offer, or (y) as provided in Section
5(h) hereof, in the case of a Shelf Registration or in the case of Exchange
Notes to be sold by a Participating Broker-Dealer during the Applicable
Period)), (ii) printing expenses, including, without limitation, expenses of
printing certificates for Registrable Notes or Exchange Notes in a form eligible
for deposit with The Depository Trust Company and of printing prospectuses if
the printing of prospectuses is requested by the managing underwriter or
underwriters, if any, or by the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal
amount at maturity of the Registrable Notes included in any Registration
Statement or in respect of Exchange Notes to be sold by any Participating
Broker-Dealer during the Applicable Period, as the case may be, (iii) messenger,
telephone and delivery expenses, (iv) fees and disbursements of counsel for the
Company and the reasonable fees and disbursements of one special counsel for all
of the sellers of Registrable Notes (exclusive of any counsel retained pursuant
to Section 7 hereof) selected by the Holders of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of Notes, Exchange Notes and Private Exchange Notes being
registered and reasonably satisfactory to the Company, (v) fees and
disbursements of all independent certified public accountants referred to in
Section 5(m)(iii) hereof (including, without limitation, the expenses of any
special audit and "cold comfort" letters required by or incident to such
performance), (vi) Securities Act liability insurance, if the Company desire
such insurance, (vii) fees and expenses of all other Persons retained by any of
the Company, (viii) internal expenses of the Company (including, without
limitation, all salaries and expenses of officers and employees of the Company
performing legal or

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accounting duties), (ix) the expense of any annual audit, (x) the fees and
expenses incurred in connection with the listing of the securities to be
registered on any securities exchange, and the obtaining of a rating of the
securities, in each case, if applicable, (xi) any required fees and expenses
incurred in connection with any filing required to be made with the NASD and
(xii) the expenses relating to printing, word processing and distributing all
Registration Statements, underwriting agreements, indentures and any other
documents necessary in order to comply with this Agreement. Notwithstanding the
foregoing or anything to the contrary, each Holder shall pay all underwriting
discounts and commissions of any underwriters with respect to any Registrable
Notes sold by or on behalf of it.

      Section 7. Indemnification

            (a) The Company agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Holder of
Registrable Notes and each Participating Broker-Dealer selling Exchange Notes
during the Applicable Period, each Person, if any, who controls any such Person
within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20(a) of the
Exchange Act, the agents, employees, officers and directors of each Holder and
each such Participating Broker-Dealer and the agents, partners, members,
employees, officers, managers and directors of any such controlling Person
(each, a "Participant") from and against any and all losses, liabilities,
claims, damages and expenses whatsoever (including, but not limited to,
reasonable attorneys' fees and any and all reasonable expenses whatsoever
actually incurred in investigating, preparing or defending against any
litigation, commenced or threatened, or any claim whatsoever, and any and all
reasonable amounts paid in settlement of any claim or litigation) (collectively,
"Losses") to which they or any of them may become subject under the Securities
Act, the Exchange Act or otherwise insofar as such Losses (or actions in respect
thereof) arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue
statement of a material fact contained in any Registration Statement (or any
amendment thereto) or Prospectus (as amended or supplemented if the Company
shall have furnished any amendments or supplements thereto) or any preliminary
prospectus, or caused by, arising out of or based upon any omission or alleged
omission to state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or
necessary to make the statements therein, in the case of the Prospectus, in the
light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, provided
that (i) the foregoing indemnity shall not be available to any Participant
insofar as such Losses are caused by any untrue statement or omission or alleged
untrue statement or omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with
information relating to such Participant furnished to the Company in writing by
or on behalf of such Participant expressly for use therein, and (ii) the
foregoing indemnity with respect to any preliminary prospectus shall not inure
to the benefit of any Participant from whom the Person asserting such Losses
purchased Registrable Notes if (x) it is established in the related proceeding
that such Participant failed to send or give a copy of the Prospectus (as
amended or supplemented if such amendment or supplement was furnished to such
Participant prior to the written confirmation of such sale) to such Person with
or prior to the written confirmation of such sale, if required by applicable
law, and (y) the untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or
omission was completely corrected in the Prospectus (as amended or supplemented
if amended or supplemented as aforesaid) and such Prospectus does not contain
any other untrue statement or omission or alleged untrue statement or omission
that was the subject matter of the related proceeding. This indemnity agreement
will be in addition to any liability that the Company may otherwise have,
including, but not limited to, liability under this Agreement. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained herein, any costs or expenses advanced by the
Company to any Participant pursuant to the terms of this Section 7(a) shall be
promptly reimbursed to the extent that such Participant is ultimately determined
not to have been entitled to indemnification therefor.

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            (b) Each Participant agrees, severally and not jointly, to indemnify
and hold harmless the Company, each Person, if any, who controls the Company
within the meaning of Section 15 of the Securities Act or Section 20(a) of the
Exchange Act, and each of their respective agents, partners, members, employees,
officers and members of the board of directors from and against any Losses to
which they or any of them may become subject under the Securities Act, the
Exchange Act or otherwise insofar as such Losses (or actions in respect thereof)
arise out of or are based upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement
of a material fact contained in any Registration Statement (or any amendment
thereto) or Prospectus (as amended or supplemented if the Company shall have
furnished any amendments or supplements thereto) or any preliminary prospectus,
or caused by, arising out of or based upon any omission or alleged omission to
state therein a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make
the statements therein, in the case of the Prospectus, in the light of the
circumstances under which they were made, not misleading, in each case to the
extent, but only to the extent, that any such Loss arises out of or is based
upon any untrue statement or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged
omission made in reliance upon and in conformity with information relating to
such Participant furnished in writing to the Company by or on behalf of such
Participant expressly for use therein.

            (c) Promptly after receipt by an indemnified party under subsection
7(a) or 7(b) above of notice of the commencement of any action, suit or
proceeding (collectively, an "action"), such indemnified party shall, if a claim
in respect thereof is to be made against the indemnifying party under such
subsection, notify each party against whom indemnification is to be sought in
writing of the commencement of such action (but the failure so to notify an
indemnifying party shall not relieve such indemnifying party from any liability
that it may have under this Section 7 except to the extent that it has been
prejudiced in any material respect by such failure). In case any such action is
brought against any indemnified party, and it notifies an indemnifying party of
the commencement of such action, the indemnifying party will be entitled to
participate in such action and, to the extent it may elect by written notice
delivered to the indemnified party promptly after receiving the aforesaid notice
from such indemnified party, to assume the defense of such action with counsel
reasonably satisfactory to such indemnified party. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, the indemnified party or parties shall have the right to employ its
or their own counsel in any such action, but the reasonable fees and expenses of
such counsel shall be at the expense of such indemnified party or parties unless
(i) the employment of such counsel and the payment of such fees and expenses by
the indemnifying party shall have been authorized and agreed to in writing by
the indemnifying parties in connection with the defense of such action, (ii) the
indemnifying parties shall not have employed counsel to take charge of the
defense of such action within a reasonable time after notice of commencement of
the action, or (iii) the named parties to such action (including any impleaded
parties) include such indemnified party and the indemnifying party or parties
(or such indemnifying parties have assumed the defense of such action), and such
indemnified party or parties shall have reasonably concluded, after consultation
with counsel, that there may be defenses available to it or them that are
different from or additional to those available to one or all of the
indemnifying parties (in which case the indemnifying parties shall not have the
right to direct the defense of such action on behalf of the indemnified party or
parties), in any of which events such reasonable fees and expenses of such
counsel shall be borne by the indemnifying parties. In no event shall the
indemnifying party be liable for the reasonable fees and expenses of more than
one counsel (together with appropriate local counsel) at any time for all
indemnified parties in connection with any one action or separate but
substantially similar or related actions arising in the same jurisdiction out of
the same general allegations or circumstances. Any such separate firm for the
Participants shall be designated in writing by Participants who sold a majority
in interest of Registrable Notes sold by all such Participants and shall be
reasonably acceptable to the Company and any such separate firm for the Company,
its affiliates, officers, directors, representatives,

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employees and agents and such control Person of the Company shall be designated
in writing by the Company and shall be reasonably acceptable to the Holders. An
indemnifying party shall not be liable for any settlement of any claim or action
effected without its written consent, which consent may not be unreasonably
withheld. No indemnifying party shall, without the prior written consent of the
indemnified party, effect any settlement of any pending or threatened proceeding
in respect of which any indemnified party is or could have been a party and
indemnity could have been sought hereunder by such indemnified party, unless
such settlement (x) includes an unconditional release of such indemnified party
from all liability on claims that are the subject matter of such proceeding and
(y) does not include a statement as to or an admission of fault, culpability or
a failure to act by or on behalf of any indemnified party.

            (d) In order to provide for contribution in circumstances in which
the indemnification provided for in this Section 7 is for any reason held to be
unavailable from the indemnifying party for any Losses referred to therein, or
is insufficient to hold harmless a party indemnified under this Section 7 for
any Losses referred to therein, each indemnifying party shall contribute to the
amount paid or payable by such indemnified party as a result of such aggregate
Losses (i) in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative benefits
received by each indemnifying party, on the one hand, and each indemnified
party, on the other hand, from the sale of the Notes to the Initial Purchasers
or the resale of the Registrable Notes by such Holder, as applicable, or (ii) if
such allocation is not permitted by applicable law, in such proportion as is
appropriate to reflect not only the relative benefits referred to in clause (i)
above but also the relative fault of each indemnified party, on the one hand,
and each indemnifying party, on the other hand, in connection with the
statements or omissions that resulted in such Losses, as well as any other
relevant equitable considerations. The relative benefits received by the
Company, on the one hand, and each Participant, on the other hand, shall be
deemed to be in the same proportion as (x) the total proceeds from the sale of
the Notes to the Initial Purchasers (net of discounts and commissions but before
deducting expenses) received by the Company are to (y) the total net profit
received by such Participant in connection with the sale of the Registrable
Notes. The relative fault of the parties shall be determined by reference to,
among other things, whether the untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material
fact or the omission or alleged omission to state a material fact relates to
information supplied by the Company or such Participant and the parties'
relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or
prevent such statement or omission or alleged statement or omission.

            (e) The parties agree that it would not be just and equitable if
contribution pursuant to this Section 7 were determined by pro rata allocation
or by any other method of allocation that does not take into account the
equitable considerations referred to above. Notwithstanding the provisions of
this Section 7, (i) in no case shall any Participant be required to contribute
any amount in excess of the amount by which the net profit received by such
Participant in connection with the sale of the Registrable Notes exceeds the
amount of any damages that such Participant has otherwise been required to pay
by reason of any untrue or alleged untrue statement or omission or alleged
omission and (ii) no person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the
meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to
contribution from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent
misrepresentation. Any party entitled to contribution will, promptly after
receipt of notice of commencement of any action against such party in respect of
which a claim for contribution may be made against another party or parties
under this Section 7, notify such party or parties from whom contribution may be
sought, but the omission to so notify such party or parties shall not relieve
the party or parties from whom contribution may be sought from any obligation it
or they may have under this Section 7 or otherwise, except to the extent that it
has been prejudiced in any material respect by such failure; provided, however,
that no additional notice shall be required with respect to any action for which
notice has been given under this Section 7 for purposes of

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indemnification. Anything in this section to the contrary notwithstanding, no
party shall be liable for contribution with respect to any action or claim
settled without its written consent; provided, however, that such written
consent was not unreasonably withheld.

      Section 8. Rules 144 and 144A

            The Company covenants that it will file the reports required, if
any, to be filed by the Company under the Securities Act and the Exchange Act
and the rules and regulations adopted by the Commission thereunder in a timely
manner in accordance with the requirements of the Securities Act and the
Exchange Act and, if at any time the Company is not required to file such
reports, it will, upon the request of any Holder or beneficial owner of
Registrable Notes, make available such information necessary to permit sales
pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act. The Company further covenants
that for so long as any Registrable Notes remain outstanding they will take such
further action as any Holder of Registrable Notes may reasonably request from
time to time to enable such Holder to sell Registrable Notes without
registration under the Securities Act within the limitation of the exemptions
provided by (a) Rule 144(k) and Rule 144A under the Securities Act, as such
Rules may be amended from time to time, or (b) any similar rule or regulation
hereafter adopted by the Commission.

      Section 9. Underwritten Registrations

            If any of the Registrable Notes covered by any Shelf Registration
are to be sold in an underwritten offering, the investment banker or investment
bankers and manager or managers that will manage the offering will be selected
by the Holders of a majority in aggregate principal amount at maturity of such
Registrable Notes included in such offering and shall be reasonably acceptable
to the Company.

            No Holder of Registrable Notes may participate in any underwritten
registration hereunder if such Holder does not (a) agree to sell such Holder's
Registrable Notes on the basis provided in any underwriting arrangements
approved by the Persons entitled hereunder to approve such arrangements and (b)
complete and execute all questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities,
underwriting agreements and other documents required under the terms of such
underwriting arrangements.

      Section 10. Miscellaneous

            (a) No Inconsistent Agreements. The Company has not, as of the date
hereof, and shall not, after the date of this Agreement, enter into any
agreement with respect to any of its securities that is inconsistent with the
rights granted to the Holders of Registrable Notes in this Agreement or
otherwise conflicts with the provisions hereof. The rights granted to the
Holders hereunder do not conflict with and are not inconsistent with, in any
material respect, the rights granted to the holders of any of the Company's
other issued and outstanding securities under any such agreements. The Company
has not entered and will not enter into any agreement with respect to any of its
securities which will grant to any Person piggy-back registration rights with
respect to any Registration Statement.

            (b) Adjustments Affecting Registrable Notes. The Company shall not,
directly or indirectly, take any action with respect to the Registrable Notes as
a class that would adversely affect the ability of the Holders of Registrable
Notes to include such Registrable Notes in a registration undertaken pursuant to
this Agreement.

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                                      -22-

            (c) Amendments and Waivers. The provisions of this Agreement may not
be amended, modified or supplemented, and waivers or consents to departures from
the provisions hereof may not be given except pursuant to a written agreement
duly signed and delivered by (I) the Company and (II)(A) the Holders of not less
than a majority in aggregate principal amount at maturity of the then
outstanding Registrable Notes and (B) in circumstances that would adversely
affect the Participating Broker-Dealers, the Participating Broker-Dealers
holding not less than a majority in aggregate principal amount at maturity of
the Exchange Notes held by all Participating Broker-Dealers; provided, however,
that Section 7 and this Section 10(c) may not be amended, modified or
supplemented except pursuant to a written agreement duly signed and delivered by
the Company and each Holder and each Participating Broker-Dealer (including any
Person who was a Holder or Participating Broker-Dealer of Registrable Notes or
Exchange Notes, as the case may be, disposed of pursuant to any Registration
Statement) affected by any such amendment, modification, waiver or supplement.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, a waiver or consent to depart from the provisions
hereof with respect to a matter that relates exclusively to the rights of
Holders of Registrable Notes whose securities are being sold pursuant to a
Registration Statement and that does not directly or indirectly affect, impair,
limit or compromise the rights of other Holders of Registrable Notes may be
given by Holders of at least a majority in aggregate principal amount at
maturity of the Registrable Notes being sold pursuant to such Registration
Statement.

            (d) Notices. All notices and other communications (including,
without limitation, any notices or other communications to the Trustee) provided
for or permitted hereunder shall be made in writing by hand-delivery, registered
first-class mail, next-day air courier or telecopier:

            (i) if to a Holder of the Registrable Notes or any Participating
      Broker-Dealer, at the most current address of such Holder or Participating
      Broker-Dealer, as the case may be, set forth on the records of the
      registrar under the Indenture.

            (ii) if to the Company, to it at:

                                NTK Holdings, Inc.
                                50 Kennedy Plaza
                                Providence, RI  02903
                                Fax: (401) 751-9844
                                Attention: Chief Financial Officer

                 with a copy to:

                                Ropes & Gray LLP
                                One International Place
                                Boston, MA  02110
                                Fax: (617) 951-7050
                                Attention: John B. Ayer, Esq.

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                                      -23-

            (iii) if to the Initial Purchasers, at the address as follows:

                                Credit Suisse First Boston LLC
                                299 Park Avenue
                                New York, NY 10171
                                Attention: Investment Banking Department --
                                           Transactions Advisory Group

            All such notices and communications shall be deemed to have been
duly given: when delivered by hand, if personally delivered; five Business Days
after being deposited in the mail, postage prepaid, if mailed; when receipt is
acknowledged by the recipient's telecopier machine, if telecopied; and on the
next Business Day, if timely delivered to an air courier guaranteeing overnight
delivery.

            Copies of all such notices, demands or other communications shall be
concurrently delivered by the Person giving the same to the Trustee at the
address and in the manner specified in such Indenture.

            (e) [Intentionally omitted.]

            (f) Successors and Assigns. This Agreement shall inure to the
benefit of and be binding upon the successors and assigns of each of the parties
hereto, the Holders and the Participating Broker-Dealers; provided, however,
that this Agreement shall not inure to the benefit of or be binding upon a
successor or assign of a Holder unless and to the extent such successor or
assign holds Registrable Notes.

            (g) Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of
counterparts and by the parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which
when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken
together shall constitute one and the same agreement.

            (h) Headings. The headings in this Agreement are for convenience of
reference only and shall not limit or otherwise affect the meaning hereof.

            (i) GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED
IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (WITHOUT GIVING EFFECT TO
ANY PROVISIONS THEREOF RELATING TO CONFLICTS OF LAW EXCEPT SECTION 5-1401 OF THE
NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS LAW).

            (j) Severability. If any term, provision, covenant or restriction of
this Agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid,
illegal, void or unenforceable, the remainder of the terms, provisions,
covenants and restrictions set forth herein shall remain in full force and
effect and shall in no way be affected, impaired or invalidated, and the parties
hereto shall use their best efforts to find and employ an alternative means to
achieve the same or substantially the same result as that contemplated by such
term, provision, covenant or restriction. It is hereby stipulated and declared
to be the intention of the parties that they would have executed the remaining
terms, provisions, covenants and restrictions without including any of such that
may be hereafter declared invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable.

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            (k) Securities Held by the Company or Its Affiliates. Whenever the
consent or approval of Holders of a specified percentage of Registrable Notes is
required hereunder, Registrable Notes held by the Company or any of its
affiliates (as such term is defined in Rule 405 under the Securities Act) shall
not be counted in determining whether such consent or approval was given by the
Holders of such required percentage.

            (l) Third-Party Beneficiaries. Holders and beneficial owners of
Registrable Notes and Participating Broker-Dealers are intended third-party
beneficiaries of this Agreement, and this Agreement may be enforced by such
Persons. No other Person is intended to be, or shall be construed as, a
third-party beneficiary of this Agreement.

            (m) Entire Agreement. This Agreement, together with the Purchase
Agreement and the Indenture, is intended by the parties as a final and exclusive
statement of the agreement and understanding of the parties hereto in respect of
the subject matter contained herein and therein and any and all prior oral or
written agreements, representations, or warranties, contracts, understandings,
correspondence, conversations and memoranda between the Holders on the one hand
and the Company on the other, or between or among any agents, representatives,
parents, subsidiaries, affiliates, predecessors in interest or successors in
interest with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof are merged herein
and replaced hereby.

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            IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Agreement as of
the date first written above.

                                NTK HOLDINGS, INC.

                                By: /s/ Kevin W. Donnelly
                                    ----------------------
                                    Name: Kevin W. Donnelly
                                    Title: Vice President, General Counsel and
                                             Secretary

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                                CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON LLC
                                BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC
                                UBS SECURITIES LLC

                                By: CREDIT SUISSE FIRST BOSTON LLC, as
                                    Representative of the Initial Purchasers

                                By: /s/ Diron Jebejian
                                    ---------------------
                                    Name:  Diron Jebejian
                                    Title: Director<PAGE>

                                                                   EXHIBIT 10.15

            AMENDMENT NO. 1, dated as of March 29, 2005 (this "Amendment"), to
the Credit Agreement dated as of August 27, 2004 (as amended, supplemented,
amended and restated or otherwise modified from time to time, the "Credit
Agreement"), among Nortek, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "U.S. Borrower"),
each of the Canadian Borrowers named on the signature page hereto (the "Canadian
Borrowers" and together with the U.S. Borrower, the "Borrowers"), Nortek
Holdings, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the "Parent Guarantor"), UBS AG,
STAMFORD BRANCH, as U.S. administrative agent and as Canadian administrative
agent (in such capacities, the "Administrative Agent"), the Lenders from time to
time party thereto, Credit Suisse First Boston, acting through its Cayman
Islands Branch ("CSFB"), as syndication agent (in such capacity, the
"Syndication Agent"), CSFB and UBS Securities LLC ("UBSS"), as joint lead
arrangers and joint lead bookrunners (in such capacities, the "Joint Lead
Arrangers" and "Joint Lead Bookrunners"), Bank of America, N.A. and Bear Stearns
Corporate Lending Inc., as Co-Documentation Agents, and the other parties
thereto. Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the
meanings assigned to them in the Credit Agreement (as amended hereby).

            WHEREAS, the Borrowers desire to create a new tranche of term loans
consisting of Term B Loans (as defined in Section 1) pursuant to amendments
authorized by Section 10.01 of the Credit Agreement which Term B Loans shall,
except with respect to the definition of "Applicable Rate" have substantially
identical terms as the Term Loans and shall be in a like principal amount as the
outstanding Term Loans the proceeds of which would be used to refinance all of
the Term Loans all as more fully set forth in Section 1;

            WHEREAS, upon the effectiveness of this Amendment, each Term Lender
that shall have executed and delivered a signature page to this Amendment shall
be deemed to have exchanged its Term Loans (which Term Loans shall thereafter no
longer be deemed to be outstanding) for Term B Loans in the same aggregate
principal amount as such Term Lender's Term Loans, and such Term Lender shall
thereafter become a Term B Lender;

            WHEREAS, upon the effectiveness of this Amendment, each Person who
executes and delivers a signature page to this Amendment as an Additional Term B
Lender (as defined in Section 1) will make Term B Loans to the U.S. Borrower in
Dollars, the proceeds of which will be used by the U.S. Borrower to repay in
full the outstanding principal amount of Term Loans that are not converted to
Term B Loans and the U.S. Borrower shall pay to each Term Lender all accrued and
unpaid interest on the Term Loans to, but not including, the date of
effectiveness of the Amendment;

            WHEREAS, the Borrower and Required Lenders wish to make certain
other amendments set forth in Section 1 below; and

            WHEREAS, CSFB and UBSS are the joint lead arrangers and joint lead
bookrunners for the Term B Loans;

            NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and covenants
contained herein and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and
sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to
be legally bound hereby, agree as follows:

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            Section 1. AMENDMENTS. The Credit Agreement is hereby amended
effective as of the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date as follows:

            (a) The following defined terms shall be added to Section 1.01 of
      the Credit Agreement:

            "Additional Term B Commitment" means, with respect to an Additional
      Term B Lender, the commitment of such Additional Term B Lender to make
      Additional Term B Loans on the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date, in an
      amount set forth next to the signature of such Additional Term B Lender on
      the Amendment. The aggregate amount of the Additional Term B Commitments
      shall equal the outstanding principal amount of Term Loans of
      Non-Consenting Term Lenders.

            "Additional Term B Lender" means a Person with an Additional Term B
      Commitment on the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date.

            "Additional Term B Loan" means a Loan that is made pursuant to
      Section 2.01(c) on the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date.

            "Amendment No. 1" means Amendment No. 1 to this Agreement dated as
      of March 29, 2005.

            "Amendment No. 1 Effective Date" means the first Business Day on
      which all conditions precedent set forth in Section 3 of Amendment No. 1
      are satisfied.

            "Non-Consenting Term Lender" means each Term Lender that did not
      execute and deliver a counterpart of Amendment No. 1 on or prior to the
      Amendment No. 1 Effective Date.

            "Term B Commitment" means, with respect to a Term Lender, the
      agreement of such Term Lender to exchange its Term Loans for an equal
      aggregate principal amount of Term B Loans on the Amendment No. 1
      Effective Date, as evidenced by such Term Lender executing and delivering
      Amendment No. 1.

            "Term B Lender" means, collectively, (i) each Term Lender that
      executes and delivers Amendment No. 1 on or prior to the Amendment No. 1
      Effective Date and (ii) each Additional Term B Lender.

            "Term B Loan" means a Loan in Dollars made pursuant to Section
      2.01(c) on the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date.

            (b) Section 1.01 of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended by
deleting the definition of "Agreement" contained therein and replacing it with
the following:

            "Agreement" means this Credit Agreement, as amended, amended and
      restated or otherwise modified from time to time.

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                                      -3-

            (c) Section 1.01 of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended by
deleting clause (a) only of the definition of "Applicable Rate" in its entirety
and replacing it with the following:

            "(a) with respect to Term B Loans, (i) until the first Business Day
      immediately following the date on which the Compliance Certificate for the
      fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2005 is delivered pursuant to Section
      6.02(b), (A) for Eurodollar Rate Loans, 2.25% and (B) for Base Rate Loans,
      1.25%, and (ii) thereafter, (A) if the Leverage Ratio is less than or
      equal to 4.50:1.00 as set forth in the most recent Compliance Certificate
      received by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.02(b), (1) for
      Eurodollar Rate Loans, 2.00% and (2) for Base Rate Loans, 1.00% and (B) if
      the Leverage Ratio is greater than 4.50:1.00 as set forth in the most
      recent Compliance Certificate received by the Administrative Agent
      pursuant to Section 6.02(b), (1) for Eurodollar Rate Loans, 2.25% and (2)
      for Base Rate Loans, 1.25%; provided, that the Applicable Rates referred
      to in clause (i) shall apply (x) as of the first Business Day after the
      date on which a Compliance Certificate was required to have been delivered
      but was not delivered, and shall continue to so apply to and including the
      date on which such Compliance Certificate is so delivered (and thereafter
      the Applicable Rates otherwise determined in accordance with this
      definition shall apply) and (y) at the option of the U.S. Administrative
      Agent or the Requisite Class Lenders holding Term B Loans, the Applicable
      Rates referred to in clause (i) shall apply as of the first Business Day
      after an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, and shall
      continue to so apply to but excluding the date on which such Event of
      Default is cured or waived (and thereafter the Applicable Rates otherwise
      determined in accordance with this definition shall apply);"

            (d) Section 1.01 of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended by
replacing the reference to "Section 2.05(b)(ii)" in the definition of "Capital
Expenditures" contained therein to "Section 2.05(b)(iii)".

            (e) Section 1.01 of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended by
deleting the proviso to the definition of "Specified Issuance Proceeds" and
replacing it with the following:

            "provided, that for purposes of determining the amount of Specified
      Issuance Proceeds available to the U.S. Borrower or any of its
      Subsidiaries, in the case of clauses (a) and (b), such Net Cash Proceeds
      shall have been actually received by the U.S. Borrower (through capital
      contributions of such Net Cash Proceeds by Holdings to the U.S. Borrower)"

            (f) Section 2.01 of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended by adding
the following clause (c) to such Section.

            "(c) (i) Subject to the terms and conditions hereof and of Amendment
      No. 1, each Term Lender with a Term Loan that has executed a counterpart
      to

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                                      -4-

      Amendment No. 1 severally agrees to exchange its Term Loan for a like
      principal amount of Term B Loans on the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date.

                  (ii) Subject to the terms and conditions hereof and of
      Amendment No. 1, each Additional Term B Lender severally agrees to make
      Additional Term B Loans in Dollars to the U.S. Borrower on the Amendment
      No. 1 Effective Date in a principal amount not to exceed its Additional
      Term B Commitment on the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date. The U.S. Borrower
      shall prepay all Term Loans of Non-Consenting Term Lenders with the gross
      proceeds of the Additional Term B Loans.

                  (iii) The U.S. Borrower shall pay all accrued and unpaid
      interest on the Term Loans to the Term Lenders to, but not including, the
      Amendment No. 1 Effective Date on such Amendment No. 1 Effective Date and
      any breakage loss or expense under Section 3.05. The Amendment No. 1
      Effective Date shall be deemed the first day of a new Interest Period of
      three months with respect to the Term B Loans made on the Amendment No. 1
      Effective Date.

                  (iv) The Term B Loans shall have the same terms as the Term
      Loans as set forth in the Credit Agreement and Loan Documents, except as
      modified by Amendment No. 1. For avoidance of doubt, the Term B Loans (and
      all principal, interest and other amounts in respect thereof) will
      constitute "Obligations" under the Credit Agreement and the other Loan
      Documents and, except as set forth in Amendment No. 1, shall have the same
      rights and obligations under the Credit Agreement and Loan Documents as
      the Term Loans."

            (g) Section 2.05 of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended by adding
to the end of such Section new clause (c) as follows:

            "(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, 100% of the proceeds of all
      Additional Term B Loans shall be used to repay Term Loans of the
      Non-Consenting Term Lenders."

            (h) Section 2.14(a) of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended by
replacing the second appearance of "(iii)" with "(iv)".

            (i) All references to "Term Borrowing", "Term Commitments", "Term
Facility", "Term Lender", "Term Loan" and "Term Note" (except any such
references appearing in the provisions of clauses (a), (f) and (g) of Section 1
of this Amendment) in the Credit Agreement and the Loan Documents shall be
deemed to be references to "Term B Borrowing", "Term B Commitments" (and, as
applicable, "Additional Term B Commitments"), "Term B Facility", "Term B
Lender", "Term B Loan" and "Term B Note" respectively. For the avoidance of
doubt, (a) the Additional Term B Commitments, Additional Term B Loans and the
Additional Term B Lenders shall not be treated as Incremental Term Commitments,
Incremental Term Loans or Additional Lenders as such terms are defined in
Section 2.14, and (b) references to the Term Loans

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in clause (iii) of Section 2.14(a) shall not be deemed to refer to the Term B
Loans but shall continue to refer to the Term Loans made on the Closing Date.

            (j) Section 6.12(a) of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended by
deleting clause (i) in its entirety and replacing it with the following:

            "(i) in connection with the formation or acquisition of a Restricted
      Subsidiary or upon any Domestic Subsidiary which was a Non-Guarantor
      Domestic Subsidiary ceasing for any reason to meet the definition thereof
      or the redesignation of any Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted
      Subsidiary, within thirty (30) days after such formation, acquisition, or
      change of status or such longer period as the Administrative Agent may
      agree in its sole discretion, (A) cause each such Restricted Subsidiary
      that is not a Foreign Subsidiary (or a Subsidiary of a Foreign Subsidiary)
      to duly execute and deliver to the U.S. Administrative Agent a guaranty or
      guaranty supplement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
      U.S. Administrative Agent, guaranteeing the other Loan Parties'
      obligations under the Loan Documents, and (B) deliver all certificates
      representing the Pledged Interests of each such Restricted Subsidiary
      owned by a U.S. Loan Party, accompanied by undated stock powers or other
      appropriate instruments of transfer executed in blank, and all instruments
      evidencing the Pledged Debt of each such Restricted Subsidiary owned by a
      U.S. Loan Party, indorsed in blank to the U.S. Administrative Agent,
      together with, if requested by the U.S. Administrative Agent, supplements
      to the U.S. Security Agreement with respect to the pledge of any Equity
      Interests or Indebtedness; provided that only 65% of Equity Interests of
      any Foreign Subsidiary owned by a U.S. Loan Party shall be required to be
      pledged as Collateral,"

            (k) Section 6.12(a) of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended by
replacing the words "Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Foreign Subsidiary" in
clause (iii) thereof with the words "Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Foreign
Subsidiary (or a Subsidiary of a Foreign Subsidiary)".

            (l) Section 6.12(a) of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended by
replacing the words "Subsidiary that is not a Foreign Subsidiary or such parent"
in clause (iv) thereof with the words "Restricted Subsidiary that is not a
Foreign Subsidiary (or a Subsidiary of a Foreign Subsidiary)".

            (m) Section 6.12(d) of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended by
replacing the reference to "Non-Guarantor Restricted Subsidiary" contained
therein with "Non-Guarantor Domestic Subsidiary".

            (n) Section 6.16 of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended by adding
a new clause (g) to the end of such Section as follows:

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                                      -6-

            "(g) within forty-five (45) days after the Amendment No. 1 Effective
Date, the U.S. Borrower shall cause the applicable U.S. Loan Parties to deliver
the following items to the U.S. Administrative Agent:

                  (i) with respect to each Mortgage encumbering any Real
            Property, a mortgage amendment (a "Mortgage Amendment") duly
            executed and acknowledged by the applicable Loan Party, and in form
            for recording in the recording office where each such Mortgage was
            recorded, together with such certificates, affidavits,
            questionnaires or returns as shall be required in connection with
            the recording or filing thereof under applicable law, in each case
            in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the U.S.
            Administrative Agent;

                  (ii) with respect to each Mortgage Amendment, an endorsement
            with respect to the existing mortgage title insurance policy
            (collectively, the "Mortgage Policy") relating to the Mortgage
            encumbering such Real Property assuring the U.S. Administrative
            Agent that the Mortgage, as amended by the Mortgage Amendment is a
            valid and enforceable first priority lien on such Real Property in
            favor of the U.S. Administrative Agent for the benefit of the
            Secured Parties free and clear of all defects and encumbrances and
            liens except Permitted Encumbrances and Permitted Liens (as defined
            in the applicable Mortgage), and such Mortgage Policy shall
            otherwise be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
            U.S. Administrative Agent; and

                  (iii) with respect to each Mortgage Amendment, opinions of
            local counsel to the Loan Parties, which opinions (x) shall be
            addressed to the U.S. Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders,
            (y) shall cover the enforceability of the respective Mortgage as
            amended by the Mortgage Amendment and such other matters incident to
            the transactions contemplated herein as the U.S. Administrative
            Agent may reasonably request and (z) shall be in form and substance
            reasonably satisfactory to the U.S. Administrative Agent."

            (o) Section 7.02(h) of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended by
replacing the reference in subclause (D) to "this clause (i)" with "this clause
(h)".

            (p) Section 7.03(c)(vi) of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended by
inserting "(x)," immediately before the reference to "(xi)".

            (q) Section 7.06(f)(ii) of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended
(i) by replacing the reference to "Investors LLC" with "any direct or indirect
parent company of the U.S. Borrower" and (ii) by replacing the second appearance
of "Holdings" with "Holdings or any direct or indirect parent company of the
U.S. Borrower".

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                                      -7-

            (r) Section 7.06(f)(iii) of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended
by replacing the reference to "Investors LLC" with "any direct or indirect
parent company of the U.S. Borrower".

            (s) Section 7.06(f)(iv) of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended by
replacing the reference to "Investors LLC" with "any direct or indirect parent
company of the U.S. Borrower".

            (t) Section 7.06(f)(vi) of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended by
replacing the reference to "Holdings" with "Holdings or any direct or indirect
parent company of the U.S. Borrower".

            (u) The obligations of the Loan Parties under Section 6.16 of the
Credit Agreement to deliver a Mortgage or any other items set forth therein
solely as it relates to the leased Real Property located at 940 Columbia Avenue,
Riverside, California are hereby waived.

            Section 2. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES. The Parent Guarantor and
the Borrowers represent and warrant to the Lenders as of the date hereof and as
of the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date that:

            (a) The execution and delivery of this Amendment by the Loan Parties
      has been duly authorized.

            (b) The execution, delivery and performance by each of the Loan
      Parties of this Amendment, will not (a) contravene the terms of any of
      such Person's Organization Documents, (b) conflict with or result in any
      breach or contravention of, or the creation of any Lien under (other than
      as permitted by Section 7.01 of the Credit Agreement), or require any
      payment (except for Term Loans to be repaid on the Amendment No. 1
      Effective Date with the proceeds of the Term B Loans) to be made under (i)
      any Contractual Obligation to which such Person is a party or affecting
      such Person or the properties of such Person or any of its Subsidiaries
      subject to delivery of a copy of the Mortgages encumbering the Real
      Property set forth on Schedule 6.16(b) of the Credit Agreement to the
      landlord under the applicable lease to the extent required pursuant to the
      terms of any Mortgaged Lease (as defined in the applicable Mortgage) or to
      the extent required by Landlord (as defined in the applicable Mortgage) in
      connection with its consent to granting a mortgage encumbering the
      applicable Loan Party's leasehold interest in such Mortgage Lease or (ii)
      any order, injunction, writ or decree of any Governmental Authority or any
      arbitral award to which such Person or its property is subject; or (c)
      violate any Law; except with respect to any breach or contravention or
      payment (but not creation of Liens) referred to in clause (b)(i), to the
      extent that such conflict, breach, contravention or payment could not
      reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

            (c) The representations and warranties set forth in the Credit
      Agreement, are true and correct in all material respects with the same
      effect as if made on the Amend-

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                                      -8-

      ment No. 1 Effective Date, except to the extent such representations and
      warranties expressly relate to an earlier date.

            (d) At the time of and after giving effect to this Amendment, no
      Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.

            Section 3. CONDITIONS TO EFFECTIVENESS OF AMENDMENT. This Amendment
shall become effective on the first Business Day (the "Amendment No. 1 Effective
Date") on which each of the following conditions is satisfied:

            (a) The U.S. Administrative Agent shall have received from (i)
      Additional Term B Lenders having Additional Term B Commitments equal in
      principal amount to the amount of Term Loans held by Non-Consenting Term
      Lenders, (ii) the Required Lenders, (iii) the Administrative Agent and
      (iv) each Loan Party, either (x) a counterpart of this Amendment signed on
      behalf of such party or (y) written evidence satisfactory to the
      Administrative Agent (which may include telecopy transmission of a signed
      signature page of this Amendment) that such party has signed a counterpart
      of this Amendment;

            (b) The U.S. Borrower shall have provided the Administrative Agent
      with a Borrowing Request two Business Days prior to the Amendment No. 1
      Effective Date with respect to the borrowing of Term B Loans on the
      Amendment No. 1 Effective Date;

            (c) Each Term B Lender shall have received, if requested at least
      three Business Days prior to the date on which each of the other
      conditions to the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date have been met, one or
      more Term B Notes payable to the order of such Lender duly executed by the
      U.S. Borrower in substantially the form of Exhibit C-1 to the Credit
      Agreement, as modified by this Amendment, evidencing its Term B Loans;

            (d) The U.S. Borrower shall have paid to all Term Lenders on the
      Amendment No. 1 Effective Date simultaneously with the making of Term B
      Loans under the Credit Agreement all accrued and unpaid interest on the
      Term Loans to, but not including, the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date;

            (e) All corporate and other proceedings taken or to be taken in
      connection with this Amendment and all documents incidental thereto,
      whether or not referred to herein, shall be satisfactory in form and
      substance to the Administrative Agent;

            (f) The Administrative Agent shall have received a legal opinion, in
      form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent,
      from Ropes & Gray LLP, counsel to the U.S. Borrower;

            (g) The U.S. Borrower shall have paid to the Administrative Agent
      all reasonable costs and expenses (including, without limitation the
      reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP,
      counsel for the Agents) of the Administrative Agent to the extent
      invoiced;

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                                      -9-

            (h) At the time of and after giving effect to the Amendment no
      Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing;

            (i) The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate of
      the Responsible Officer of the U.S. Borrower to the effect that the
      representations and warranties set forth in Section 2 are true and correct
      in all material respects.

            Section 4. COUNTERPARTS. This Amendment may be executed in any
number of counterparts and by different parties hereto on separate counterparts,
each of which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed to be an original,
but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single instrument.
Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Amendment by
facsimile transmission shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed
counterpart hereof.

            Section 5. APPLICABLE LAW. THIS AMENDMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY,
CONSTRUED AND ENFORCED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

            Section 6. HEADINGS. The headings of this Amendment are for purposes
of reference only and shall not limit or otherwise affect the meaning hereof.

            Section 7. EFFECT OF AMENDMENT. Except as expressly set forth
herein, this Amendment shall not by implication or otherwise limit, impair,
constitute a waiver of or otherwise affect the rights and remedies of the
Lenders or the Agents under the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, and
shall not alter, modify, amend or in any way affect any of the terms,
conditions, obligations, covenants or agreements contained in the Credit
Agreement or any other provision of the Credit Agreement or any other Loan
Document, all of which are ratified and affirmed in all respects and shall
continue in full force and effect. The Required Lenders agree that the Parent
Guarantor, the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent may enter into an Amended
and Restated Credit Agreement after the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date in form
and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent to give effect to this
Amendment. By executing and delivering a copy hereof, each Loan Party hereby
agrees and confirms that all Obligations (including, without limitation, the
Term B Loans) shall be fully guaranteed by the Parent Guarantor pursuant to the
Credit Agreement and the U.S. Subsidiary Guarantors pursuant to the U.S.
Subsidiary Guarantee Agreement and shall be fully secured pursuant to the
Security Documents securing the Obligations of the U.S. Loan Parties.

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                                      -10-

            IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to
be duly executed as of the date first above written.

                                      NORTEK, INC., as U.S. Borrower

                                      By: /s/ Edward J. Cooney
                                          -------------------------------------
                                          Name: Edward J. Cooney
                                          Title:  Vice President and Treasurer

                                      NORTEK HOLDINGS, INC., as Parent Guarantor

                                      By: /s/ Edward J. Cooney
                                          -------------------------------------
                                          Name: Edward J. Cooney
                                          Title:  Vice President and Treasurer

                                      BROAN-NUTONE CANADA INC., as a
                                        Canadian Borrower

                                      By: /s/ Edward J. Cooney
                                          -------------------------------------
                                          Name: Edward J. Cooney
                                          Title:  Vice President and Treasurer

                                      VENTROL AIR HANDLING SYSTEMS INC.,
                                        as a Canadian Borrower

                                      By: /s/ Edward J. Cooney
                                          -------------------------------------
                                          Name: Edward J. Cooney
                                          Title:  Vice President and Treasurer

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                                      -11-

                                  Acknowledged and agreed to
                                  by each of the Subsidiary
                                  Guarantors named below:

                                  AUBREY MANUFACTURING, INC.,
                                  COMMERCIAL ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS GROUP, INC.,
                                  DMU BUTLER INC.,
                                  GOVERNAIR CORPORATION,
                                  INNERGY TECH INC.,
                                  J.A.R. INDUSTRIES, INC.,
                                  JENSEN INDUSTRIES, INC.,
                                  M&S SYSTEMS GP, INC.,
                                  M&S SYSTEMS LP, INC.,
                                  MAMMOTH, INC.,
                                  MAMMOTH CHINA LTD.,
                                  MULTIPLEX TECHNOLOGY, INC.,
                                  NORDYNE, INC.,
                                  NUTONE INC.,
                                  OMNIMOUNT SYSTEMS, INC.,
                                  OPERATOR SPECIALTY COMPANY, INC.,
                                  RANGAIRE GP, INC.,
                                  RANGAIRE LP, INC.,
                                  SPEAKERCRAFT, INC.,
                                  STUDLEY CANADA LIMITED,
                                  TEMTROL, INC.,
                                  VENMAR CES, INC.,
                                  VENMAR VENTILATION (H.D.H.) INC.,
                                  VENMAR VENTILATION INC.,
                                  WEBCO, INC., AND
                                  XANTECH CORPORATION

                                  By: /s/ Edward J. Cooney
                                      ------------------------------
                                      Name: Edward J. Cooney
                                      Title:  Vice President and Treasurer

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                                   BROAN-NUTONE LLC,
                                           By: Nortek, Inc., its sole member

                               By: /s/ Edward J. Cooney
                                   ---------------------------------------------
                                   Name: Edward J. Cooney
                                   Title:  Vice President and Treasurer

                                   ELAN HOME SYSTEMS, L.L.C.,
                                       By: Linear LLC, its sole member
                                           By: WDS LCC, its sole member
                                               By: Nortek, Inc., its sole member

                                       By: /s/ Edward J. Cooney
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name: Edward J. Cooney
                                           Title:  Vice President and Treasurer

                                   LINEAR H.K. LLC,
                                       By: Linear LLC, its sole member
                                           By: WDS LCC, its sole member
                                               By: Nortek, Inc., its sole member

                                       By: /s/ Edward J. Cooney
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name: Edward J. Cooney
                                           Title:  Vice President and Treasurer

                                       LINEAR LLC,
                                           By: WDS LLC, its sole member
                                               By: Nortek, Inc., its sole member

                                       By: /s/ Edward J. Cooney
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name: Edward J. Cooney
                                           Title:  Vice President and Treasurer

<PAGE>

                               WDS LLC,
                                   By: Nortek, Inc., its sole member

                                   By: /s/ Edward J. Cooney
                                       -----------------------------------------
                                       Name: Edward J. Cooney
                                       Title:  Vice President and Treasurer

                               RANGAIRE LP,
                                   By: Rangaire GP, Inc., its general partner

                                   By: /s/ Edward J. Cooney
                                       -----------------------------------------
                                       Name: Edward J. Cooney
                                       Title:  Vice President and Treasurer

                               M&S SYSTEMS, LP,
                                   By: M&S Systems GP, Inc., its general partner

                                   By: /s/ Edward J. Cooney
                                       -----------------------------------------
                                       Name: Edward J. Cooney
                                       Title:  Vice President and Treasurer

<PAGE>

                                          UBS AG, STAMFORD BRANCH,
                                              as U.S. Administrative Agent and
                                              Canadian Administrative Agent

                                          By: /s/Wilfred V. Saint
                                              ----------------------------------
                                              Name: Wilfred V. Saint
                                              Title: Director

                                          By: /s/ Richard L. Tavrow
                                              ----------------------------------
                                              Name: Richard L. Tavrow
                                              Title: Director

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                                          JUPITER LOAN FUNDING LLC,
                                              as a Lender

                                          By: /s/ Meredith J. Koslick
                                              ----------------------------------
                                              Name: Meredith J. Koslick
                                              Title: Assistant Vice President

                                          If you wish to request an
                                          Additional Term B
                                          Commitment, please include
                                          the amount requested:
                                          $________________(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.
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                                   WINGED FOOT FUNDING TRUST,
                                     As a Lender

                                   By: /s/ Kelly W. Warnement
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: Kelly W. Warnement
                                       Title: Authorized Agent

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $________(1)
---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

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                                   BIRCHWOOD FUNDING LLD,
                                     As a Lender

                                   By: /s/ Meredith J. Koslick
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: Meredith J. Koslick
                                       Title: Assistant Vice President

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

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                                   New Alliance Global CDO, Limited
                                   By: Alliance Capital Management L.P.,
                                   as Sub-advisor
                                   By: Alliance Capital management Corporation,
                                     As General Partner

                                   By: /s/ Teresa McCarthy
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: Teresa McCarthy
                                       Title: Vice President

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $________(1)

--------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

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                                   American Express Certificate Company
                                   By: American Express Asset Management
                                   Group, Inc. as Collateral Manager
                                     as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ Vincent P. Pham
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: Vincent P. Pham
                                       Title: Director - Operations

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

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                                   Centurion CDO 8, Limited
                                   By: American Express Asset Management
                                   Group, Inc. as Collateral Manager
                                     as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ Vincent P. Pham
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: Vincent P. Pham
                                       Title: Director - Operations

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   Centurion CDO II, Ltd.
                                   By: American Express Asset Management
                                   Group, Inc. as Collateral Manager
                                     as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ Vincent P. Pham
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: Vincent P. Pham
                                       Title: Director - Operations

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

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                                   Centurion CDO VI, Ltd.
                                   By: American Express Asset Management
                                   Group, Inc. as Collateral Manager
                                     as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ Vincent P. Pham
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: Vincent P. Pham
                                       Title: Director - Operations

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   Centurion CDO VII, Ltd.
                                   By: American Express Asset Management
                                   Group, Inc. as Collateral Manager
                                      as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ Vincent P. Pham
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: Vincent P. Pham
                                       Title: Director - Operations

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

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                                   IDS Life Insurance Company
                                   By: American Express Asset Management
                                   Group, Inc. as Collateral Manager
                                      as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ Vincent P. Pham
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: Vincent P. Pham
                                       Title: Director - Operations

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

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                                   KZH CYPRESSTREE-I LLC

                                   By: /s/ Joyce Fraser-Bryant
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: Joyce Fraser-Bryant
                                       Title: Authorized Agent

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

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                                   KZH STERLING LLC

                                   By: /s/ Joyce Fraser-Bryant
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: Joyce Fraser-Bryant
                                       Title: Authorized Agent

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

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                                   Sequils-Centurion V, Ltd.
                                   By: American Express Asset Management
                                   Group, Inc. as Collateral Manager
                                     as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ Vincent P. Pham
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: Vincent P. Pham
                                       Title: Director - Operations

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   IDS Life Insurance Company
                                   By: American Express Asset Management
                                   Group, Inc. as Collateral Manager
                                      as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ Vincent P. Pham
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: Vincent P. Pham
                                       Title: Director - Operations

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

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                                   NORTHWOODS CAPITAL III, LIMITED
                                   By: ANGELO, GORDON & CO., L.P.
                                       AS COLLATERAL MANAGER
                                       as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ John W. Fraser
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: John W. Fraser
                                       Title: Managing Director

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   NORTHWOODS CAPITAL IV, LIMITED
                                   By: ANGELO, GORDON & CO., L.P.
                                       AS COLLATERAL MANAGER
                                       as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ John W. Fraser
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: John W. Fraser
                                       Title: Managing Director

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

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                                   Navigator CDO 2003, Ltd.,
                                      as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ David Mahon
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: David Mahon
                                       Title: Vice President

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   Navigator CDO 2004, Ltd.,
                                      as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ David Mahon
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: David Mahon
                                       Title: Vice President

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   ARES IV CLO LTD.

                                   By: Ares CLO Management IV, L.P.
                                   Its: Investment Manager

                                   By: Ares CLO GP IV, LLC
                                   Its: Managing Member

                                   By: /s/ Seth J. Brufskey
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: Seth J. Brufskey
                                       Title: Vice President

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   ARES V CLO LTD.

                                   By: Ares CLO Management V, L.P.
                                   Its: Investment Manager

                                   By: Ares CLO GP V, LLC
                                   Its: Managing Member

                                   By: /s/ Seth J. Brufskey
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: Seth J. Brufskey
                                       Title:  Vice President

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   ARES VIII CLO LTD.

                                   By: Ares CLO Management VIII, L.P.
                                   Its: Investment Manager

                                   By: Ares CLO GP VIII, LLC
                                   Its: Managing Member

                                   By: /s/ Seth J. Brufskey
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: Seth J. Brufskey
                                       Title: Vice President

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   By: Ares Enhanced Loan Management, L.P.
                                   Its: Investment Manager

                                   By: Ares Enhanced Loan GP, LLC
                                   Its: General Partner

                                   By: /s/ Seth J. Brufskey
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: Seth J. Brufskey
                                       Title: Vice President

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   ARES IX CLO LTD.

                                   By: Ares CLO Management IX, L.P.
                                   Its: Investment Manager

                                   By: Ares CLO GP IX, LLC
                                   Its: Managing Member

                                   By: /s/ Seth J. Brufskey
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: Seth J. Brufskey
                                       Title: Vice President

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   AVENUE CLO FUND, LIMITED,
                                      as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ Richard D'Addario
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: Richard D'Addario
                                       Title: Senior Portfolio Manager

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   BABSON CLO LTD. 2004-I
                                   BABSON CLO LTD. 2004-II
                                   TRYON CLO LTD. 2000-I
                                   ELC (CAYMAN) LTD. 2000-I
                                   By: Babson Capital Management LLC as
                                   Collateral Manager

                                   By: /s/ John W. Stelwagon
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: John W. Stelwagon
                                       Title: Managing Director

                                   MASSACHUSETTS MUTUAL LIFE
                                   INSURANCE COMPANY
                                   By: Babson Capital Management LLC as
                                   Investment Advisor

                                   By: /s/ John W. Stelwagon
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: John W. Stelwagon
                                       Title: Managing Director

                                   LOAN FUNDING VIII LLC
                                   By: Babson Capital Management LLC as
                                   Portfolio Manager

                                   By: /s/ John W. Stelwagon
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: John W. Stelwagon
                                       Title: Managing Director

                                   BILL & MELINDA GATES FOUNDATION
                                   By: Babson Capital Management LLC as
                                   Investment Advisor

                                   By: /s/ John W. Stelwagon
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: John W. Stelwagon
                                       Title: Managing Director

                                   SOMERS CDO, LIMITED
                                   By: Babson Capital Management LLC under
                                   Delegated authority from Massachusetts Life
                                   Insurance Company as Collateral Manager

                                   By: /s/ John W. Stelwagon
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: John W. Stelwagon
                                       Title: Managing Director

<PAGE>

                                   Bank of America N.A.,
                                     as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ James Ford
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: James Ford
                                       Title: Senior Vice President

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $__________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   Spiret IV Loan Trust 2003-8
                                   By Wilmington Trust Company
                                   Not in its individual capacity buy
                                   Solely as trustee
                                      as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ Rachel L. Simpson
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: Rachel L. Simpson
                                       Title: Financial Services Officer

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $__________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   LAGUNA FUNDING LLC
                                     as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ Meredith J. Koslick
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: Meredith J. Koslick
                                       Title: Assistant Vice President

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $__________(1)

---------------
(1) To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish to
    convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental Term B
    Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without filling in
    this line.

<PAGE>

                                   Bear Stearns Loan Trust
                                   By: Bear Stearns Asset management, Inc.
                                   as its attorney-in-fact
                                     as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ Jonathan Berg
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: Jonathan Berg
                                       Title: Associate Director

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $__________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   Gallatin Funding I Ltd.
                                   By: Bear Stearns Asset Management Inc.
                                   as its Collateral Manager
                                      as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ Jonathan Berg
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: Jonathan Berg
                                       Title: Associate Director

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $__________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   Grayston CLO II 2004-I Ltd.
                                   By: Bear Stearns Asset Management Inc.
                                   as its Collateral Manager
                                      as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ Jonathan Berg
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: Jonathan Berg
                                       Title: Associate Director

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $__________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   By: Callidus Debt Partners CLO Fund II, ltd.
                                   By: Its Collateral Manager
                                   Callidus Capital Management, LLC
                                      as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ Mavis Taintor
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: Mavis Taintor
                                       Title: Senior Managing Director

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested:
                                   $2MM.(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   By: Callidus Debt Partners CLO Fund III, ltd.
                                   By: Its Collateral Manager
                                   Callidus Capital Management, LLC
                                      as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ Mavis Taintor
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: Mavis Taintor
                                       Title: Senior Managing Director

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $2MM.(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   SRF 2000, INC.,
                                      as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ Meredith J. Koslick
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: Meredith J. Koslick
                                       Title: Assistant Vice President

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $_________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   Canyon Capital CLO 2004-I Ltd.,
                                      as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ R. Christian B. Evensen
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: R. Christian B. Evensen
                                       Title: Managing Director

                                   By: Canyon Capital Advisors LLC,
                                       a Delaware Limited Liability Company,
                                       its Collateral Manager

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $_________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   Carlyle High Yield Partners III, Ltd.
                                      as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ Linda Pace
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: Linda Pace
                                       Title: Managing Director

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $_________(1)

---------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.
<PAGE>

                                            Carlyle High Yield Partners, Ltd.
                                                as a Lender

                                            By: /s/ Linda Pace
                                                --------------------------------
                                                Name: Linda Pace
                                                Title: Managing Director

                                            If you wish to request an Additional
                                            Term B Commitment, please include
                                            the amount requested: $_________(1).

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                            Carlyle High Yield Partners II, Ltd.
                                                as a Lender

                                            By: /s/ Linda Pace
                                                --------------------------------
                                                Name: Linda Pace
                                                Title: Managing Director

                                            If you wish to request an Additional
                                            Term B Commitment, please include
                                            the amount requested: $__________(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                            Carlyle High Yield Partners IV, Ltd.
                                                as a Lender

                                            By: /s/ Linda Pace
                                                --------------------------------
                                                Name: Linda Pace
                                                Title: Managing Director

                                            If you wish to request an Additional
                                            Term B Commitment, please include
                                            the amount requested: $_________(1).

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                            Carlyle Loan Investment, Ltd.
                                                as a Lender

                                            By: /s/ Linda Pace
                                                --------------------------------
                                                Name: Linda Pace
                                                Title: Managing Director

                                            If you wish to request an Additional
                                            Term B Commitment, please include
                                            the amount requested: $_________(1).

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                            Carlyle High Yield Partners IV, Ltd.
                                                as a Lender

                                            By: /s/ Linda Pace
                                                --------------------------------
                                                Name: Linda Pace
                                                Title: Managing Director

                                            If you wish to request an Additional
                                            Term B Commitment, please include
                                            the amount requested: $__________(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                            Whitney CLO I
                                                as a Lender

                                            By: /s/ John M. Casparian
                                                --------------------------------
                                                Name: John M. Casparian
                                                Title: Chief Operating Officer

                                            Centre Pacific, Manager

                                            If you wish to request an Additional
                                            Term B Commitment, please include
                                            the amount requested: $2,000,000.(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                Citigroup Investments Corporate Loan Fund Inc.
                                By: Travelers Asset Management International
                                Company LLC

                                By: /s/ John O'Connell
                                    --------------------------------
                                    Name: John O'Connell
                                    Title: Vice President

                                If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                Commitment, please include the amount requested:
                                $__________(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                            ECL Funding LLC, for itself or as
                                            agent for ECL2 Funding LLC, as a
                                            Lender

                                            By: /s/ Dominic Blea
                                                --------------------------------
                                                Name: Dominic Blea
                                                Title: As Attorney-In-Fact

                                            If you wish to request an Additional
                                            Term B Commitment, please include
                                            the amount requested: $__________(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                          THE NORINCHUKIN BANK, NEW YORK BRANCH
                                          Through State Street Bank and Trust
                                          Company N.A. as Fiduciary Custodian
                                          By: Eaton Vance Management,
                                              Attorney-in-Fact as a Lender

                                          By: /s/ Michael B. Botthof
                                              --------------------------------
                                              Name: Micael B. Botthof
                                              Title: Vice President

                                          If you wish to request an Additional
                                          Term B Commitment, please include
                                          the amount requested: $__________(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                            ATRIUM III
                                               as a Lender

                                            By: /s/ David H. Lerner
                                                --------------------------------
                                                Name: David H. Lerner
                                                Title: Authorized Signatory

                                            If you wish to request an Additional
                                            Term B Commitment, please include
                                            the amount requested: $_________(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                            CSAM Funding III,
                                                as a Lender

                                            By: /s/ David H. Lerner
                                                --------------------------------
                                                Name: David H. Lerner
                                                Title: Authorized Signatory

                                            If you wish to request an Additional
                                            Term B Commitment, please include
                                            the amount requested: $__________(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                            FIRST DOMINION FUNDING III,
                                                as a Lender

                                            By: /s/ David H. Lerner
                                                --------------------------------
                                                Name: David H. Lerner
                                                Title: Authorized Signatory

                                            If you wish to request an Additional
                                            Term B Commitment, please include
                                            the amount requested: $__________(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                            Credit Suisse Asset Management
                                            Syndicated Loan Fund
                                                as a Lender

                                            By: /s/ David H. Lerner
                                                --------------------------------
                                                Name: David H. Lerner
                                                Title: Authorized Signatory

                                            If you wish to request an Additional
                                            Term B Commitment, please include
                                            the amount requested: $__________(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                            KC CLO I LIMITED
                                                as a Lender

                                            By: /s/
                                                --------------------------------
                                                Name:
                                                Title:

                                            If you wish to request an Additional
                                            Term B Commitment, please include
                                            the amount requested: $__________(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                            Credit Suisse First Boston, acting
                                            through its Cayman Islands Branch,
                                            as a Lender

                                            By: /s/ Thomas Hall
                                                --------------------------------
                                                Name: Thomas Hall
                                                Title: Vice President

                                            By: /s/ Doreen Barr
                                                --------------------------------
                                                Name: Doreen Barr
                                                Title: Associate

                                            If you wish to request an Additional
                                            Term B Commitment, please include
                                            the amount requested: $_________(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.
<PAGE>

                                      Denali Capital LLC, managing member of
                                      DC Funding Partners, portfolio manager for
                                      DENALI CAPITAL CLO II, LTD.,
                                      or an affiliate

                                          as a Lender

                                      By: /s/ John B.
                                          ------------------------------
                                          Name: John B.
                                          Title: Officer

                                      If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                      B Commitment, please include the amount
                                      requested: $___________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                      Denali Capital LLC, managing member of
                                      DC Funding Partners, portfolio manager for
                                      DENALI CAPITAL CLO III, LTD.,
                                      or an affiliate

                                          as a Lender

                                      By: /s/ John B.
                                          ------------------------------
                                          Name: John B.
                                          Title: Officer

                                      If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                      B Commitment, please include the amount
                                      requested: $__________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                      Denali Capital LLC, managing member of
                                      DC Funding Partners, portfolio manager for
                                      DENALI CAPITAL CLO IV, LTD.,
                                      or an affiliate

                                          as a Lender

                                      By: /s/ John B.
                                          ------------------------------
                                          Name: John B.
                                          Title: Officer

                                      If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                      B Commitment, please include the amount
                                      requested: $__________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                      FOREST SPC LLC
                                          as a Lender

                                      By: /s/ Meredith J. Koslick
                                          --------------------------------
                                          Name: Meredith J. Koslick
                                          Title:  Assistant Vice President

                                      If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                      B Commitment, please include the amount
                                      requested: $___________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                      General Electric Capital Corporation
                                          as a Lender

                                      By: /s/Brian P. Schwinn
                                          ---------------------------------
                                          Name: Brian P. Schwinn
                                          Title: Duly Authorized Signatory

                                      If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                      B Commitment, please include the amount
                                      requested: $____________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                      Greenwich Int'l Ltd.
                                          as a Lender

                                      By: /s/ Bryan Verona
                                          ------------------------------
                                          Name: Bryan Verona
                                          Title: Senior Vice President

                                      If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                      B Commitment, please include the amount
                                      requested: $___________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                      By: Gulf Stream Asset Management LLC
                                          as Collateral Manager

                                      By: /s/ Mark B. Mahoney
                                          ------------------------------
                                          Name: Mark B. Mahoney
                                          Title: President

                                      If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                      B Commitment, please include the amount
                                      requested: $___________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                      Bushnell CBNA Loan Funding LLC, for itself
                                      or as agent for Bushnell CFPI Loan Funding
                                      LLC

                                          as a Lender

                                      By: /s/ Dominic Blea
                                          ------------------------------
                                          Name: Dominic Blea
                                          Title: As Attorney-In-Fact

                                      If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                      B Commitment, please include the amount
                                      requested: $___________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   FIRST TRUST/HIGHLAND CAPITAL FLOATING RATE
                                       INCOME FUND
                                   By: Highland Capital Management, L.P.
                                   Its Sub-Advisor
                                       as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ R. Joseph Dougherty
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: R. Joseph Dougherty
                                       Title: Senior Vice President, Secretary

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                   B Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $ __________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   HIGHLAND FLOATING RATE ADVANTAGE FUND
                                   By: Highland Capital Management, L.P.
                                   Its Investment Advisor
                                         as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ R. Joseph Dougherty
                                       ---------------------------------------
                                       Name: R. Joseph Dougherty
                                       Title: Senior Vice President, Secretary

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $___________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   HIGHLAND FLOATING RATE LIMITED LIABILITY
                                   COMPANY
                                   By: Highland Capital Management, L.P.
                                   Its Investment Advisor
                                       as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ R. Joseph Dougherty
                                       ----------------------------------------
                                       Name: R. Joseph Dougherty
                                       Title: Senior Vice President, Secretary

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $___________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   LOAN FUNDING VII LLC
                                   By: Highland Capital Management, L.P.
                                   as Collateral Manager
                                       as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ David Lancelot
                                       -------------------------------
                                       Name: David Lancelot
                                       Title: Treasurer

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $___________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   LOAN STAR STATE TRUST
                                   By Its Investment Manager,
                                   Highland Capital Management, L.P.
                                   By Its General Partner, Strand Advisors, Inc.
                                       as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ David Lancelot
                                       ----------------------------------------
                                       Name: David Lancelot
                                       Title: Treasurer
                                              Highland Capital Management, L.P.

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $___________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   ARCHIMEDES FUNDING III, LTD.
                                   By: ING Capital Advisors LLC
                                   as Collateral Manager

                                   By: /s/ Steven Gorski
                                       ----------------------------------------
                                       Name: Steven Gorski
                                       Title: Director

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $___________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   ARCHIMEDES FUNDING IV (CAYMAN), LTD.
                                   By: ING Capital Advisors LLC
                                   as Collateral Manager

                                   By: /s/ Steven Gorski
                                       -------------------------------------
                                       Name: Steven Gorski
                                       Title: Director

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $5,000,000.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   ENDURANCE CLO I, LTD.
                                   c/o ING Capital Advisors LLC
                                   as Collateral Manager

                                   By: /s/ Steven Gorski
                                       -----------------------------
                                       Name: Steven Gorski
                                       Title: Director

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $___________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   ING-ORYX CLO, LTD.
                                   By: ING Capital Advisors LLC
                                   as Collateral Manager

                                   By: /s/ Steven Gorski
                                       -----------------------------
                                       Name: Steven Gorski
                                       Title: Director

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $___________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   NEMEAN CLO, LTD.
                                   By: ING Capital Advisors LLC
                                   as Investment Manager

                                   By: /s/ Steven Gorski
                                       -----------------------------
                                       Name: Steven Gorski
                                       Title: Director

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $2,000,000.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   SEQUILS-ING I (HBDGM), LTD.
                                   By: ING Capital Advisors LLC
                                   as Collateral Manager

                                   By: /s/ Steven Gorski
                                       -----------------------------
                                       Name: Steven Gorski
                                       Title: Director

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $___________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   KZH CRESCENT-3 LLC

                                   By: /s/ Joyce Fraser-Bryant
                                       -----------------------------
                                       Name: Joyce Fraser-Bryant
                                       Title: Authorized Agent

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $___________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                  MERRILL LYNCH CAPITAL, a division of
                                  Merrill Lynch Business Financial Services Inc.
                                      as a Lender

                                  By: /s/ Julia F. Maslanka
                                      ------------------------------
                                      Name: Julia F. Maslanda
                                      Title: Vice President

                                  If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                  Commitment, please include the amount
                                  requested: $___________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
                                       as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ James R. Dingler
                                       -------------------------------
                                       Name: James R. Dingler
                                       Title: Director

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $___________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   MetLife Bank National
                                       as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ James R. Dingler
                                       ------------------------------
                                       Name: James R. Dingler
                                       Title: Director

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $___________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   MFS Floating Rate High Income Fund,
                                       as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ Philip C. Robbins
                                       -------------------------------
                                       Name: Philip C. Robbins
                                       Title: Vice President

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $___________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd.,
                                       as a Lender

                                   By: /s/ James R. Fayen
                                       -------------------------------
                                      Name: James R. Fayen
                                       Title: Senior Vice President

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $___________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   Venture CDO 2002, Limited
                                       as a Lender

                                   By its investment advisor, MJX Asset
                                   Management LLC

                                   By: /s/ Kenneth Ostmann
                                       -------------------------------
                                       Name: Kenneth Ostmann
                                       Title: Director

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $1,000,000.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   Venture II CDO 2002, Limited
                                       as a Lender

                                   By its investment advisor, MJX Asset
                                   Management LLC

                                   By: /s/ Kenneth Ostmann
                                       -------------------------------
                                       Name: Kenneth Ostmann
                                       Title: Director

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $1,000,000.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   Venture III CDO Limited
                                       as a Lender

                                   By its investment advisor, MJX Asset
                                   Management LLC

                                   By: /s/ Kenneth Ostmann
                                       -------------------------------
                                       Name: Kenneth Ostmann
                                       Title: Director

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $1,000,000.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   Venture IV CDO Limited
                                       as a Lender

                                   By its investment advisor, MJX Asset
                                   Management LLC

                                   By: /s/ Kenneth Ostmann
                                       -------------------------------
                                       Name: Kenneth Ostmann
                                       Title: Director

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $1,000,000.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   MASTER SENIOR FLOATING RATE TRUST

                                   By: /s/ Joseph Matteo
                                       -------------------------------
                                       Name: Joseph Matteo
                                       Title: Authorized Signatory

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $___________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   Floating Rate Income Strategies Fund, Inc.

                                   By: /s/ Joseph Matteo
                                       -------------------------------
                                       Name: Joseph Matteo
                                       Title:  Authorized Signatory

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $___________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   Floating Rate Income Strategies II, Inc.

                                   By: /s/ Joseph Matteo
                                       -------------------------------
                                       Name: Joseph Matteo
                                       Title: Authorized Signatory

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $___________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   MERRILL LYNCH PRIME RATE PORTFOLIO
                                   By: Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, L.P.
                                       as Investment Advisor

                                   By: /s/ Joseph Matteo
                                       -------------------------------
                                       Name: Joseph Matteo
                                       Title: Authorized Signatory

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $___________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   Longhorn CDO (Cayman) Ltd.
                                   By: Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, L.P.
                                       as Collateral Manager

                                   By: /s/ Joseph Matteo
                                       -------------------------------
                                       Name: Joseph Matteo
                                       Title: Authorized Signatory

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $___________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                   Longhorn CDO II, Ltd.
                                   By: Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, L.P.
                                       as Collateral Manager

                                   By: /s/ Joseph Matteo
                                       -------------------------------
                                       Name: Joseph Matteo
                                       Title: Authorized Signatory

                                   If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                                   Commitment, please include the amount
                                   requested: $___________________.(1)

-----------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.
<PAGE>

                                       Longhorn CDO III, Ltd.
                                       By: Merrill Lynch Investment Managers,
                                           L.P. as Collateral Manager

                                       By: /s/ Joseph Matteo
                                           -----------------
                                           Name: Joseph Matteo
                                           Title: Authorized Signatory

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested:
                                       $____________.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       Mountain Capital CLO II Ltd.
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Darren P. Riley
                                           -------------------
                                           Name: Darren P. Riley
                                           Title: Director

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested:
                                       $____________.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       Mountain Capital CLO III Ltd.
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Darren P. Riley
                                           -------------------
                                           Name: Darren P. Riley
                                           Title: Director

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested:
                                       $____________.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       NATEXIS BANQUE POPULARIES
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ William J. Burke
                                           --------------------
                                           Name: William J. Burke
                                           Title: Vice President

                                       By: /s/ Jordan H. Levy
                                           ------------------
                                           Name: Jordan H. Levy
                                           Title: Assistant Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested:
                                       $____________.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       NATIONAL CITY BANK
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Gavin D. Young
                                           ------------------
                                           Name: Gavin D. Young
                                           Title: Assistant Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $5,000,000.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       HARBOURVIEW CLO IV, LTD.
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Lisa Chaffee
                                           ----------------
                                           Name: Lisa Chaffee
                                           Title: Assistant Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested:
                                       $_____________.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       HARBOURVIEW CLO V, LTD.
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Lisa Chaffee
                                           -----------------
                                           Name: Lisa Chaffee
                                           Title: Assistant Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested:
                                       $______________.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       OPENHEIMER SENIOR FLOATING RATE FUND,
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Lisa Chaffee
                                           ----------------
                                           Name: Lisa Chaffee
                                           Title: Assistant Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested:
                                       $_______________.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       WATERVILLE FUNDING LLC,
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Meredith J. Koslick
                                           -----------------------
                                           Name: Meredith J. Koslick
                                           Title: Assistant Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $4,000,000.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       PPM MONARCH BAY FUNDING LLC
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Meredith J. Koslick
                                           -----------------------------------
                                           Name: Meredith J. Koslick
                                           Title: Assistant Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested:
                                       $______________.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       PPM SPYGLASS FUNDING TRUST
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Kelly W. Warnement
                                           ----------------------
                                           Name: Kelly W. Warenment
                                           Title: Authorized Agent

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested:
                                       $_____________.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       Veritas CLO I, Ltd.
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ John Randolph Wattone
                                           -------------------------
                                           Name: John Randolph Wattone
                                           Title: Executive Director

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $5,000,000.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       HUDSON STRAITS CLO 2004, LTD.
                                       By Royal Bank of Canada as Collateral
                                          Manager

                                       By: /s/ Melissa Marano
                                           ------------------
                                           Name: Melissa Marano
                                           Title: Authorized Signatory

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested:
                                       $______________.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       SEQUILS-Glace Bay, Ltd.
                                       By Royal Bank of Canada as Collateral
                                          Manager

                                       By: /s/ Melissa Marano
                                           ------------------
                                           Name: Melissa Marano
                                           Title: Authorized Signatory

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested:
                                       $______________.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada (US)
                                       By Fairlead Capital Management, Inc. as
                                          Sub-Advisor

                                       By: /s/ Melissa Marano
                                           ------------------
                                           Name: Melissa Marano
                                           Title: Authorized Signatory

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested:
                                       $______________.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       HARBOUR TOWN FUNDING LLC
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Meredith J. Koslick
                                           -----------------------
                                           Name: Meredith J. Koslick
                                           Title: Assistant Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested:
                                       $____________.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       Cooksmill
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Mark Allen
                                           --------------
                                           Name: Mark Allen
                                           Title: Director

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested:
                                       $_____________.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       FRF Corporation
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ John Hall
                                           -------------
                                           Name: John Hall
                                           Title: Senior Manager

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested:
                                       $_____________.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       SOL Loan Funding LLC, for itself or as
                                       agent for SOL2 Funding LLC
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Suzanne Smith
                                           -----------------
                                           Name: Suzanne Smith
                                           Title: As Attorney-In-Fact

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested:
                                       $_____________.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       ULT CBNA Loan Funding LLC,
                                       for itself or as agent for
                                       ULT CFPI Loan Funding LLC
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Suzanne Smith
                                           ------------------
                                           Name: Suzanne Smith
                                           Title: As Attorney-In-Fact

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested:
                                       $____________.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       Galaxy CLO 2003-1, Ltd.
                                       by: AIG Global Investment Corp.
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ W. Jeffrey Baxter
                                           ---------------------
                                           Name: W. Jeffrey Baxter
                                           Title: Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested:
                                       $______________.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       Galaxy CLO III, Ltd.
                                       by: AIG Global Investment Corp.
                                           as Investment Advisor

                                       By: /s/ W. Jeffrey Baxter
                                           ---------------------
                                           Name: W. Jeffrey Baxter
                                           Title: Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested:
                                       $______________.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       KZH SOLEIL LLC
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Joyce Fraser-Bryant
                                           -----------------------
                                           Name: Joyce Fraser-Bryant
                                           Title: Authorized Agent

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested:
                                       $______________.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       KZH SOLEIL-2 LLC
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Joyce Fraser-Bryant
                                           -----------------------
                                           Name: Joyce Fraser-Bryant
                                           Title: Authorized Agent

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested:
                                       $______________.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       SunAmerica Life Insurance Company
                                       by: AIG Global Investment Corp.
                                           as Investment Advisor

                                       By: /s/ W. Jeffrey Baxter
                                           ---------------------
                                           Name: W. Jeffrey Baxter
                                           Title: Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested:
                                       $______________.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       C-SQUARED CDO LTD.

                                       by: TCW Advisors, Inc.
                                           as Portfolio Advisor

                                       By: /s/ Jonathan R. Insull
                                           ----------------------
                                           Name: Jonathan R. Insull
                                           Title: Managing Director

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested:
                                       $______________.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       CELERITY CLO LIMITED

                                       by: TCW Advisors, Inc.
                                           as Agent

                                       By: /s/ Matthew A. Miller
                                           ---------------------
                                           Name: Matthew A. Miller
                                           Title: Senior Vice President

                                       By: /s/ Jonathan R. Insull
                                           ----------------------
                                           Name: Jonathan R. Insull
                                           Title: Managing Director

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested:
                                       $______________.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       LOAN FUNDING I LLC, a
                                       wholly owned subsidiary of
                                       Citibank, N.A.

                                       by: TCW Advisors, Inc.
                                       as portfolio manager of
                                       Loan Funding I LLC

                                       By: /s/ Matthew A. Miller
                                           ---------------------
                                           Name: Matthew A. Miller
                                           Title: Senior Vice President

                                       By: /s/ Jonathan R. Insull
                                           ----------------------
                                           Name: Jonathan R. Insull
                                           Title: Managing Director

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested:
                                       $______________.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       TCW SELECT LOAN FUND, LIMITED

                                       by: TCW Advisors, Inc.
                                       as its Collateral Manager

                                       By: /s/ Matthew A. Miller
                                           ---------------------
                                           Name: Matthew A. Miller
                                           Title: Senior Vice President

                                       By: /s/ Jonathan R. Insull
                                           ----------------------
                                           Name: Jonathan R. Insull
                                           Title: Managing Director

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested:
                                       $______________.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       FIRST 2004-I CLO, LTD.

                                       by: TCW Advisors, Inc.
                                       its Collateral Manager

                                       By: /s/ Matthew A. Miller
                                           ---------------------
                                           Name: Matthew A. Miller
                                           Title: Senior Vice President

                                       By: /s/ Jonathan R. Insull
                                           ----------------------
                                           Name: Jonathan R. Insull
                                           Title: Managing Director

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested:
                                       $______________.(1)

----------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.
<PAGE>

                                       FIRST 2004-II CLO, LTD.

                                       by: TCW Advisors, Inc.
                                       its Collateral Manager

                                       By: /s/ Matthew A. Miller
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Matthew A. Miller
                                           Title: Senior Vice President

                                       By: /s/ Jonathan R. Insull
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Jonathan R. Insull
                                           Title: Managing Director

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $________________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       Jefferson - Pilot Life Insurance Company

                                       by: TCW Advisors, Inc.
                                       as its Investment Advisor

                                       By: /s/ Matthew A. Miller
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Matthew A. Miller
                                           Title: Senior Vice President

                                       By: /s/ Jonathan R. Insull
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Jonathan R. Insull
                                           Title: Managing Director

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $____________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       VELOCITY CLO, LTD.

                                       by: TCW Advisors, Inc.
                                       its Collateral Manager

                                       By: /s/ Matthew A. Miller
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Matthew A. Miller
                                           Title: Senior Vice President

                                       By: /s/ Jonathan R. Insull
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Jonathan R. Insull
                                           Title: Managing Director

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment,  please include the amount
                                       requested: $_____________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       The Foothill Group, Inc.
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Richard M. Bohannon
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Richard M. Bohannon
                                           Title: Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $5,025,000.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       Tororonto Dominion (New York), L.L.C.
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Masood Fikree
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Masood Fikree
                                           Title: Authorized Signatory

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $____________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       APEX (Trimaran)CDO I, LTD.
                                       By Trimaran Advisors, L.L.C.
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ David M. Millison
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  David M. Millison
                                           Title: Managing Director

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $______________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       SAWGRASS TRADING LLC
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Meredith J. Koslick
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Meredith J. Koslick
                                           Title: Assistant Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $_____________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       UBS AG, STAMFORD BRANCH
                                           as U.S. Administrative Agent and
                                           Canadian Administrative Agent

                                       By: /s/ Wilfred V. Saint
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Wilfred V. Saint
                                           Title: Director

                                       By: /s/ Richard L. Tavrow
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Richard L. Tavrow
                                           Title: Director

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $____________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       UBS LOAN FINANCE LLC,
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Wilfred V. Saint
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Wilfred V. Saint
                                           Title: Director

                                       By: /s/ Richard L. Tavrow
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Richard L. Tavrow
                                           Title: Director

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $____________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       UBS AG, STAMFORD BRANCH,
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Wilfred V. Saint
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Wilfred V. Saint
                                           Title: Director

                                       By: /s/ Richard L. Tavrow
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Richard L. Tavrow
                                           Title: Director

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $______________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       ADVENT CREDIT SPV, LLC
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Hanson
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Hanson
                                           Title: Managing Director

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $_____________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       Landmark IV CDO Limited
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Alex Baldwin
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Alex Baldwin
                                           Title: Authorized Signatory

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $_____________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       WB Loan Funding1, LLC
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Diana M. Himes
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Diana M. Himes
                                           Title: Associate

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $____________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       BladeRock Global Floating Rate Trust
                                       BadeRock Limited Director Income Trust
                                       BladeRock Senior Income Serires
                                       BladeRock Senior Loan Trust
                                       Magnetite IV, CLO Limited
                                       Magnetite V CLO, Limited
                                       Senior Loan Fund
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ M. Williams
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  M. Williams
                                           Title: Authorized Signatory

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $_______________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       CIT LENDING SERVICES CORPORATION
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ John P. Sirico, II
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  John P. Sirico, II
                                           Title: Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $______________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       Citadel Hill 2000 LTD,
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ P. Van Schaick
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  P. Van Schaick
                                           Title: Authorized Signatory

                                       Citadel Hill 2004 LTD,
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ P. Van Schaick
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  P. Van Schaick
                                           Title: Authorized Signatory

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       MARKET SQUARE CLO, LTD.
                                       By: Credit Suisse First Boston as proxy
                                       for Deerfield Capital Management LLC
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Dana F. Klein
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Dana F. Klein
                                           Title: Managing Director

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $_____________.(1)

                                       By: /s/ Jonathan Moneypenny
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Jonathan Moneypenny
                                           Title: Vice President

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       ACCESS INSTITUTIONAL LOAN FUND,
                                       By: Credit Suisse First Boston as proxy
                                       for Deerfield Capital Management LLC
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Dana F. Klein
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Dana F. Klein
                                           Title: Managing Director

                                       By: /s/ Jonathan Moneypenny
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name: Jonathan Moneypenny
                                           Title: Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $________________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       BRYN MAWR CLO, LTD.
                                       By: Credit Suisse First Boston as proxy
                                       for Deerfield Capital Management LLC
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Dana F. Klein
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Dana F. Klein
                                           Title: Managing Director

                                       By: /s/ Jonathan Moneypenny
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Jonathan Moneypenny
                                           Title: Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $_________________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       FOREST CREEK CLO, LTD.
                                       By: Credit Suisse First Boston as proxy
                                       for Deerfield Capital Management LLC
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Dana F. Klein
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Dana F. Klein
                                           Title: Managing Director

                                       By: /s/ Jonathan Moneypenny
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Jonathan Moneypenny
                                           Title: Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $_______________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       LONG GROVE CLO, LIMITED
                                       By: Credit Suisse First Boston as proxy
                                       for Deerfield Capital Management LLC
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Dana F. Klein
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Dana F. Klein
                                           Title: Managing Director

                                       By: /s/ Jonathan Moneypenny
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Jonathan Moneypenny
                                           Title: Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $________________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       ROSEMONT CLO, LTD.
                                       By: Credit Suisse First Boston as proxy
                                       for Deerfield Capital Management LLC
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Dana F. Klein
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Dana F. Klein
                                           Title: Managing Director

                                       By: /s/ Jonathan Moneypenny
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Jonathan Moneypenny
                                           Title: Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $_________________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       SENIOR DEBT PORTFOLIO
                                       By: Boston Management and Research
                                           as Investment Advisor
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Michael B. Botthof
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Michael B. Botthof
                                           Title: Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $________________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       EATON VANCE SENIOR INCOME TRUST
                                       By: Eaton Vance Management
                                           as Investment Advisor
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Michael B. Botthof
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Michael B. Botthof
                                           Title: Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $_________________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       EATON VANCE
                                       By: Eaton Vance Management
                                           as Investment Advisor
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Michael B. Botthof
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Michael B. Botthof
                                           Title: Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $______________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       EATON VANCE CDO III, LT.
                                       By: Eaton Vance Management
                                           as Investment Advisor
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Michael B. Botthof
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Michael B. Botthof
                                           Title: Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $_________________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       COSTANTINUS EATON VANCE CDO V, LTD.
                                       By: Eaton Vance Management
                                           as Investment Advisor
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Michael B. Botthof
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Michael B. Botthof
                                           Title: Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $__________________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       EATON VANCE CDO VI LTD.
                                       By: Eaton Vance Management
                                           as Investment Advisor
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Michael B. Botthof
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Michael B. Botthof
                                           Title: Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $________________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       GRAYSON & CO.
                                       By: Boston Management and Research
                                           as Investment Advisor
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Michael B. Botthof
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Michael B. Botthof
                                           Title: Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $_________________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       BIG SKY SENIOR LOAN FUND, LTD.
                                       By: Eaton Vance Management
                                           as Investment Advisor
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Michael B. Botthof
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Michael B. Botthof
                                           Title: Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $______________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       THE NORINCHUKIN BAN, NEW YORK BRANCH
                                       through State Street Bank and Trust
                                       Company N.A. as Fiduciary Custodian
                                       By: Eaton Vance Management
                                           as Attorney-in-fact
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Michael B. Botthof
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name: Michael B. Botthof
                                           Title:  Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $___________________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       EATON VANCE
                                       VT FLOATING-RATE INCOME FUND
                                       By: Eaton Vance Management
                                           as Investment Advisor
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Michael B. Botthof
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Michael B. Botthof
                                           Title: Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $__________________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       EATON VANCE
                                       LIMITED DURATION INCOME FUND
                                       By: Eaton Vance Management
                                           as Investment Advisor
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Michael B. Botthof
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Michael B. Botthof
                                           Title: Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $______________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       EATON VANCE SENIOR FLOATING RATE
                                       TRUST
                                       By: Eaton Vance Management
                                           as Investment Advisor
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Michael B. Botthof
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Michael B. Botthof
                                           Title: Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $_______________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       EATON VANCE FLOATING RATE INCOME
                                       TRUST
                                       By: Eaton Vance Management
                                           as Investment Advisor
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Michael B. Botthof
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Michael B. Botthof
                                           Title: Vice President

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $_________________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       Fidelity Advisor Series II: Fidelity
                                           Advisor Floating Rate High Income
                                           Fund
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ John H. Costello
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  John H. Costello
                                           Title: Assistant Treasurer

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $________________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       Ballyrock CLO II Limited, By: Ballyrock
                                           Investment Advisors LLC, as
                                           Collateral Manager

                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Lisa Rymut
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Lisa Rymut
                                           Title: Assistant Treasurer

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $___________________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       Ballyrock CLO I Limited, By: Ballyrock
                                           Investment Advisors LLC, as
                                           Collateral Manager

                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Lisa Rymut
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Lisa Rymut
                                           Title: Assistant Treasurer

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $_______________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       Flagship Capital CLO 2001-1
                                       By: Flagship Capital Management, Inc.
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Mark S. Pelletier
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Mark S. Pelletier
                                           Title: Director

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $___________________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                       Flagship Capital CLO II
                                       By: Flagship Capital Management, Inc.
                                           as a Lender

                                       By: /s/ Mark S. Pelletier
                                           -------------------------------------
                                           Name:  Mark S. Pelletier
                                           Title: Director

                                       If you wish to request an Additional Term
                                       B Commitment, please include the amount
                                       requested: $_______________.(1)

----------

(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                              Flagship Capital CLO III
                              By: Flagship Capital Management, Inc.
                                  as a Lender

                              By: /s/ Mark S. Pelletier
                                  -----------------------
                                  Name: Mark S. Pelletier
                                  Title: Director

                              If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                              Commitment, please include the amount requested:
                              $______________.(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                              Arum CLO 2002-1 Ltd.
                              By: Flagship Capital Management, Inc.
                                  as a Lender

                              By: /s/ Mark S. Pelletier
                                  ------------------------
                                  Name: Mark S. Pelletier
                                  Title: Director

                              If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                              Commitment, please include the amount requested:
                              $______________.(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                              Franklin CLO I, Limited
                              Franklin CLO II, Limited
                              Franklin CLO III, Limited
                              Franklin CLO IV, Limited
                              Franklin Floating Rate Daily Access Fund
                              Franklin Floating Rate Trust
                              Franklin Templeton Lim. Duration Income Trust
                              Franklin Floating Rate Master Series
                                       as a Lender

                              By: /s/ Tyler Chan
                                  ------------------------
                                  Name: Tyler Chan
                                  Title: Vice President

                              If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                              Commitment, please include the amount requested:
                              $______________.(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                              Friedberg Milstein Private Capital Fund I,
                                  as a Lender

                              By: /s/ Barry Faifobpat
                                  ------------------------
                                  Name: Barry Faifobpat
                                  Title: President

                              If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                              Commitment, please include the amount requested:
                              $______________.(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                              State Street Bank and Trust Company as Trustee
                                  for General Motors Welfare Benefit Trust,
                                  as a Lender

                              By: /s/ Russell Ricciardi
                                  ------------------------
                                  Name: Russell Ricciardi
                                  Title: CSO

                              If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                              Commitment, please include the amount requested:
                              $500,000.(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                              State Street Bank and Trust Company as Trustee
                                  for GMAM Group Pension Trust I,
                                  as a Lender

                              By: /s/ Russell Ricciardi
                                  ------------------------
                                  Name: Russell Ricciardi
                                  Title: CSO

                              If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                              Commitment, please include the amount requested:
                              $1,500,000.(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                              ING PRIME RATE TRUST, as a Lender
                              By: ING Investment Management Co.
                                  as its investment manager

                              By: /s/ Theodore M. Haag
                                  ------------------------
                                  Name: Theodore M. Haag
                                  Title: Vice President

                              If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                              Commitment, please include the amount requested:
                              $______________.(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                              ING SENIOR INCOME FUND, as a Lender
                              By: ING Investment Management Co.
                                  as its investment manager

                              By: /s/ Theodore M. Haag
                                  ------------------------
                                  Name: Theodore M. Haag
                                  Title: Vice President

                              If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                              Commitment, please include the amount requested:
                              $______________.(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                              AVALON CAPITAL LTD.
                              By: INVESCO Senior Secured Management, Inc.
                                  as Portfolio Advisor

                              By: /s/ Thomas H. B. Ewald
                                  ------------------------
                                  Name: Thomas H. B. Ewald
                                  Title: Authorized Signatory

                              If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                              Commitment, please include the amount requested:
                              $______________.(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                              AVALON CAPITAL LTD. 3
                              By: INVESCO Senior Secured Management, Inc.
                                       as Asset Manager

                              By: /s/ Thomas H. B. Ewald
                                  ------------------------
                                  Name: Thomas H. B. Ewald
                                  Title: Authorized Signatory

                              If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                              Commitment, please include the amount requested:
                              $______________.(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                              CHAMPLAIN CLO, LTD.
                              By: INVESCO Senior Secured Management, Inc.
                                  as Collateral Manager

                              By: /s/ Thomas H. B. Ewald
                                  ------------------------
                                  Name: Thomas H. B. Ewald
                                  Title: Authorized Signatory

                              If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                              Commitment, please include the amount requested:
                              $______________.(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                              CHARTER VIEW PORTFOLIO
                              By: INVESCO Senior Secured Management, Inc.
                                  as Investment Advisor

                              By: /s/ Thomas H. B. Ewald
                                  ------------------------
                                  Name: Thomas H. B. Ewald
                                  Title: Authorized Signatory

                              If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                              Commitment, please include the amount requested:
                              $______________.(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                              DIVERSIFIED CREDIT PORTFOLIO LTD.
                              By: INVESCO Senior Secured Management, Inc.
                                  as Investment Advisor

                              By: /s/ Thomas H. B. Ewald
                                  ------------------------
                                  Name: Thomas H. B. Ewald
                                  Title: Authorized Signatory

                              If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                              Commitment, please include the amount requested:
                              $______________.(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                              AIM FLOATING RATE FUND
                              By: INVESCO Senior Secured Management, Inc.
                                  as Sub-Advisor

                              By: /s/ Thomas H. B. Ewald
                                  ------------------------
                                  Name: Thomas H. B. Ewald
                                  Title: Authorized Signatory

                              If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                              Commitment, please include the amount requested:
                              $______________.(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                              INVESCO EUROPEAN CDO I S.A.
                              By: INVESCO Senior Secured Management, Inc.
                                  as Collateral Manager

                              By: /s/ Thomas H. B. Ewald
                                  ------------------------
                                  Name: Thomas H. B. Ewald
                                  Title: Authorized Signatory

                              If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                              Commitment, please include the amount requested:
                              $______________.(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                              LOAN FUNDING IX LLC, for itself or as agent for
                              Corporate Loan Funding IX LLC
                              By: INVESCO Senior Secured Management, Inc.
                                  as Portfolio Manager

                              By: /s/ Thomas H. B. Ewald
                                  ------------------------
                                  Name: Thomas H. B. Ewald
                                  Title: Authorized Signatory

                              If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                              Commitment, please include the amount requested:
                              $______________.(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                              SEQUILS-LIBERTY, LTD.
                              By: INVESCO Senior Secured Management, Inc.
                                  as Collateral Manager

                              By: /s/ Thomas H. B. Ewald
                                  ------------------------
                                  Name: Thomas H. B. Ewald
                                  Title: Authorized Signatory

                              If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                              Commitment, please include the amount requested:
                              $______________.(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                              PETRUSSE EUROPEAN CLO S.A.
                              By: INVESCO Senior Secured Management, Inc.
                                  as Collateral Manager

                              By: /s/ Thomas H. B. Ewald
                                  ------------------------
                                  Name: Thomas H. B. Ewald
                                  Title: Authorized Signatory

                              If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                              Commitment, please include the amount requested:
                              $______________.(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                              SAGAMORE CLO LTD.
                              By: INVESCO Senior Secured Management, Inc.
                                  as Collateral Manager

                              By: /s/ Thomas H. B. Ewald
                                  ------------------------
                                  Name: Thomas H. B. Ewald
                                  Title: Authorized Signatory

                              If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                              Commitment, please include the amount requested:
                              $______________.(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                              SARATOGA CLO I, LIMITED
                              By: INVESCO Senior Secured Management, Inc.
                                  as Asset Manager

                              By: /s/ Thomas H. B. Ewald
                                  ------------------------
                                  Name: Thomas H. B. Ewald
                                  Title: Authorized Signatory

                              If you wish to request an Additional Term B
                              Commitment, please include the amount requested:
                              $______________.(1)

---------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.
<PAGE>

                                           Victoria Falls CLO, Ltd.
                                               as Portfolio Advisor

                                           By: /s/ Mark D. Senkpie
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Mark D. Senkpie
                                               title: Managing Director

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $______________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           THE LOOMIS SAYLES SENIOR LOAN FUND,
                                           LLC

                                           By: Loomis Sayles and Company, L.P.
                                               its manager
                                           By: Loomis Sayles and Company, Inc.
                                               as general partner

                                           By: /s/ Kevin J. Perry
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Kevin J. Perry
                                               title: Vice President

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Morgan Stanley Prime Income Trust,
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Jinny K. Kim
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Jinny K. Kim
                                               title: Vice President

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $_____________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Clydesdale Strategic CLO I, Ltd.
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Elizabeth Mace
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Elizabeth Mace
                                               Title:

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $________.(1)

                                           NOMURA CORPORATE RESEARCH AND ASSET
                                           MANAGEMENT INC.
                                           AS INVESTMENT MANAGER

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Nomura Bank & Loan Fund
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Elizabeth Mace
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Elizabeth Mace
                                               Title:

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $______________.(1)

                                           By: UFJ trust Bank Limited as Trustee
                                           By: Nomura Corporate Research and
                                                    Asset Manager Inc.
                                                    Attorney in Fact

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Clydesdale CLO 2001-I, Ltd.
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Elizabeth Mace
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Elizabeth Mace
                                               Title:

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $___________.(1)

                                           NOMURA CORPORATE RESEARCH AND ASSET
                                           MANAGEMENT INC.
                                           AS COLLATERAL MANAGER

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Clydesdale CLO 2003 Ltd.
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Elizabeth Mace
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Elizabeth Mace
                                               Title:

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $______________.(1)

                                           NOMURA CORPORATE RESEARCH AND ASSET
                                           MANAGEMENT INC.
                                           AS COLLATERAL MANAGER

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Clydesdale CLO 2004, Ltd.
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Elizabeth Mace
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Elizabeth Mace
                                               Title:

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $____________.(1)

                                           NOMURA CORPORATE RESEARCH AND ASSET
                                           MANAGEMENT INC.
                                           AS INVESTMENT MANAGER

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           NORAM Loan Trust
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Elizabeth Mace
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Elizabeth Mace
                                               Title:

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $_________.(1)

                                           NOMURA CORPORATE RESEARCH AND ASSET
                                           MANAGEMENT INC.
                                           AS INVESTMENT MANAGER

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           ELF FUNDING TRUST III
                                           By: New York Life Investment
                                               as Attorney-in-Fact
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Mark A. Campellone
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Mark A. Campellone
                                               title: Director

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $__________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           A Series of Eclipse Funds Inc.
                                           By: New York Life Investment
                                               Management LLC
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Mark A. Campellone
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Mark A. Campellone
                                               title: Director

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $__________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           NYLIM FLATIRON CLO 2003-I LTD.
                                           By: New York Life Investment
                                               Management LLC
                                               Collateral Manager and
                                               Attorney-in-Fact as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Mark A. Campellone
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Mark A. Campellone
                                               title: Director

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $__________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           NYLIM FLATIRON CLO 2001
                                           By: New York Life Investment
                                               Management LLC
                                               Collateral Manager and
                                               Attorney-in-Fact as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Mark A. Campellone
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Mark A. Campellone
                                               title: Director

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $__________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Addison CLO, Limited
                                           By: Pacific Investment Management
                                               Company LLC
                                               as its Investment Advisor

                                           By: /s/ Mohan V. Phansalkar
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Mohan V. Phansalkar
                                               title: Managing Director

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $__________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Corona Trust
                                           By: Pacific Investment Management
                                               Company LLC
                                               as its Investment Advisor

                                           By: /s/ Mohan V. Phansalkar
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Mohan V. Phansalkar
                                               title: Managing Director

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $__________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Jissekikun Funding, Ltd.
                                           By: Pacific Investment Management
                                               Company LLC
                                               as its Investment Advisor

                                           By: /s/ Mohan V. Phansalkar
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Mohan V. Phansalkar
                                               title: Managing Director

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $__________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Loan Funding III LLC
                                           By: Pacific Investment Management
                                               Company LLC
                                               as its Investment Advisor

                                           By: /s/ Mohan V. Phansalkar
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Mohan V. Phansalkar
                                               title: Managing Director

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $__________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           PIMCO Floating Rate Strategy Fund
                                           By: Pacific Investment Management
                                               Company LLC
                                               as its Investment Advisor, acting
                                               through Investors Fiduciary Trust
                                               Company in the Nominiee Name of
                                               IFTCO

                                           By: /s/ Mohan V. Phansalkar
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Mohan V. Phansalkar
                                               title: Managing Director

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $__________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           SEQUILS-MAGNUM, LTD.
                                           By: Pacific Investment Management
                                               Company LLC
                                               as its Investment Advisor

                                           By: /s/ Mohan V. Phansalkar
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Mohan V. Phansalkar
                                               title: Managing Director

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $___________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Southport CLO, Limited
                                           By: Pacific Investment Management
                                               Company LLC
                                               as its Investment Advisor

                                           By: /s/ Mohan V. Phansalkar
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Mohan V. Phansalkar
                                               title: Managing Director

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $____________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Waveland-INGOTS, LTD.
                                           By: Pacific Investment Management
                                               Company LLC
                                               as its Investment Advisor

                                           By: /s/ Mohan V. Phansalkar
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Mohan V. Phansalkar
                                               title: Managing Director

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $_____________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Wrigley CDO, Ltd.
                                           By: Pacific Investment Management
                                               Company LLC
                                               as its Investment Advisor

                                           By: /s/ Mohan V. Phansalkar
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Mohan V. Phansalkar
                                               title: Managing Director

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $______________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           PNC Bank, N.A.
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Thomas J. Bogdewic
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Thomas J. Bogdewic
                                               title: Vice President

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $______________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Bryden Leveraged Loan CDO 2002-II
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: Prudential Investment
                                               Management, Inc.
                                               as Collateral Manager

                                           By: /s/ B. Ross Smead
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: B. Ross Smead
                                               title: Vice President

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $______________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Bryden IV - Leveraged Loan CDO 2003,
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: Prudential Investment
                                               Management, Inc.
                                               as Collateral Manager

                                           By: /s/ B. Ross Smead
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: B. Ross Smead
                                               title: Vice President

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $_____________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Bryden V - Leveraged Loan CDO 2003,
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: Prudential Investment
                                               Management, Inc.
                                               as Collateral Manager

                                           By: /s/ B. Ross Smead
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: B. Ross Smead
                                               title: Vice President

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $_____________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Bryden VII - Leveraged Loan CDO 2004,
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: Prudential Investment Management,
                                               Inc.
                                               as Collateral Manager

                                           By: /s/ B. Ross Smead
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: B. Ross Smead
                                               title: Vice President

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $____________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Boston Harbor CLO 2004-1, Ltd.
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Beth Mazor
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Beth Mazor
                                               title: Vice President

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $______________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Putnam Floating Rate Income Fund
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Beth Mazor
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Beth Mazor
                                               title: Vice President

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $______________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Smith Barney High Income Fund,
                                           a series of Smith Barney Income Funds
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Beth Semmel
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Beth Semmel
                                               title: Managing Director

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $_____________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           AMAM GROUP PENSION TRUST II
                                           FOR THE AMBROADSCOPE POOL
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Nicole Stephenson
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Nicole Stephenson
                                               title: AT

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $______________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Sankaty Advisors, LLC as Collateral
                                           Manager for AVERY POINT CLO, LTD.,
                                           as Term Lender
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Timothy Barns
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Timothy Barns
                                               title: Senior Vice President

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $5,000,000.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Sankaty Advisors, LLC as Collateral
                                           Manager for Castle Hill I -INGOTS
                                           Ltd.,
                                           as Term Lender
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Timothy Barns
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Timothy Barns
                                               title: Senior Vice President

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $5,000,000.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Sankaty Advisors, LLC as Collateral
                                           Manager for Loan Funding XI LLC,
                                           as Term Lender
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Timothy Barns
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Timothy Barns
                                               Title: Senior Vice President

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $5,000,000.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Sankaty Advisors, LLC as Collateral
                                           Manager for Race Point CLO, Limited,
                                           as Term Lender
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Timothy Barns
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Timothy Barns
                                               title: Senior Vice President

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $5,000,000.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Sankaty Advisors, LLC as Collateral
                                           Manager for Race Point II CLO,
                                           Limited,
                                           as Term Lender
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Timothy Barns
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Timothy Barns
                                               Title: Senior Vice President

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $5,000,000.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           SKY CBNA LOAN FUNDING, LLC
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Karen Kwan
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Karen Kwan
                                               Title: Assistant Vice President

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $_____________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Sankaty High Yield Asset Partners II,
                                           L.P. as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Timothy Barns
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Timothy Barns
                                               title: Senior Vice President

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $5,000,000.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Sankaty High Yield Partners III, L.P.
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Timothy Barns
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Timothy Barns
                                               Title: Senior Vice President

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $5,000,000.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           EAGLE LOAN TRUST
                                           By: Stanfield Capital Partners, LLC
                                           as its Collateral Manager
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Christopher E. Jonson
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Christopher E. Jonson
                                               Title: Managing Partner

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $______________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Hamilton CDO, Ltd.
                                           By: Stanfield Capital Partners, LLC
                                           as its Collateral Manager
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Christopher E. Jonson
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Christopher E. Jonson
                                               Title: Managing Partner

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $_____________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Stanfield Modena CLO, Ltd.
                                           By: Stanfield Capital Partners, LLC
                                           as its Collateral Manager
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Christopher E. Jonson
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Christopher E. Jonson
                                               Title: Managing Partner

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $_____________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Stanfield Quattro CLO, Ltd.
                                           By: Stanfield Capital Partners, LLC
                                           as its Collateral Manager
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Christopher E. Jonson
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Christopher E. Jonson
                                               title: Managing Partner

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $_____________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           STRONG SHORT-TERM HIGH YIELD BOSTON
                                           AT WELLS CAPITAL MANAGEMENT
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: /s/ Gilbert L. Southwell III
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Gilbert L. Southwell III
                                               Title: Vice President

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $_____________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Nuveen Diversified Dividend and
                                           Income Fund, as a Lender

                                           By: Symphony Asset Management LLC

                                           By: /s/ Larry Mason
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Larry Mason
                                               Title: Portfolio Manager

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $_____________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Nuveen Floating Rate Income Fund,
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: Symphony Asset Management LLC

                                           By: /s/ Larry Mason
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Larry Mason
                                               Title: Portfolio Manager

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $______________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Nuveen Floating Rate Income
                                           Opportunity Fund, as a Lender

                                           By: Symphony Asset Management LLC

                                           By: /s/ Larry Mason
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Larry Mason
                                               Title: Portfolio Manager

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $_____________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Nuveen Senior Income Fund,
                                               as a Lender

                                           By: Symphony Asset Management LLC

                                           By: /s/ Larry Mason
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Larry Mason
                                               Title: Portfolio Manager

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $_____________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Nuveen Tax Advantage Total Return
                                           Strategy Fund, as a Lender

                                           By: Symphony Asset Management LLC

                                           By: /s/ Larry Mason
                                               ---------------------------------
                                               Name: Larry Mason
                                               title: Portfolio Manager

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $______________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

<PAGE>

                                           Western Asset Floating Rate High
                                           Income Fund as a Lender

                                           By: /s/______________________________
                                               Name:
                                               Title:

                                           If you wish to request an Additional
                                           Term B Commitment, please include the
                                           amount requested: $_____________.(1)

------------------------------------
(1)   To be completed upon finalization of allocations. Term Lenders that wish
      to convert term Loans into Term B Loans without funding any incremental
      Term B Loans should execute and return a signature page hereto without
      filling in this line.

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