Bruce and Matt, I am running the Ifeffit 1.2.8 on a Win2000 box and I having several issues with the startup of Athena/Artemis when I am not connected to a network. First thing is that all programs run fine when I am connected to the internet. So the obvious workaround for me is to just make sure that I have an open network connection before running Athena/Artemis. However, it would be nice if the auto-update feature in "Runner.exe" would still let me run Athena/Artemis when I wasn't connected to the network, basically just ignore looking for an update when I don't have a network connection. The errors that I get in the Runner.exe.log are below. There are two different cases shown. The first set of errors are when I have a connection to my local network, but have not yet logged onto the firewall that lets me out onto the internet. The second set of errors comes up when I unplug the network connection completely. Hope these help. NETWORK CONNECTION NO INTERNET CONNECTION ----------------------------------------- Traceback (most recent call last): File "runner.py", line 753, in ? File "runner.py", line 184, in __init__ File "runner.py", line 275, in LookForUpdates File "runner.py", line 299, in read_web_version File "urllib.pyc", line 76, in urlopen File "urllib.pyc", line 181, in open File "urllib.pyc", line 306, in open_http File "urllib.pyc", line 319, in http_error File "urllib.pyc", line 565, in http_error_302 File "urllib.pyc", line 580, in redirect_internal File "urllib.pyc", line 181, in open File "urllib.pyc", line 306, in open_http File "urllib.pyc", line 319, in http_error File "urllib.pyc", line 616, in http_error_401 File "urllib.pyc", line 624, in retry_http_basic_auth File "urllib.pyc", line 650, in get_user_passwd File "urllib.pyc", line 658, in prompt_user_passwd NO NETWORK CONNECTION -------------------------------------- File "runner.py", line 753, in ? File "runner.py", line 184, in __init__ File "runner.py", line 275, in LookForUpdates File "runner.py", line 302, in read_web_version Dave _________________________________ David Barton The Dow Chemical Company