yes ever since i saw his pharaoh's and kings tv special when i was about i have tweaked the years up and down because i have a different exodus date but all the synchronisms are the same i haven't begun lords of avaris yet and my contributions to the yahoo group have been less than sparse since i started work on my phd but i am still a rohlian at heart is the nc manager a standalone piece of software i don't know about the personal messaging if i had to guess i would say no