> The trouble is, electronic storage space has become incredibly cheap, whether they like it or not. And it cries out to be filled

Very true, Werner - my colleague has just been provided with a new puter with a 320 gig drive and he can hardly type... so I have taken out the option of getting my buddy in ICT to set me up with a 'secret' shared nominal drive so I can use it to store loads of my memory-hungry graphics work. I just hope Dave's network profile won't take too long to load...