I still haven't heard from the programmer, so I've started shipping. I may have to kill him. Either way if he doesn't get things done soon, the good news is I have another programmer ready to go - he's proven a reliable and competent programmer for numerous projects of mine. But with the uber now, there are only such minor mods that are done, I haven't changed programmers. ie none of the ubdates are critical, but it doesn't mean the long waits are acceptable.