gee maverick... our answers are so similar... it's like we know each other, worked next to each other for 8 months, live 3 minutes down the road from each other, and hang out damned near on a daily basis or something! :) now, my question to you about your response... how would you use the alarm going off here to get out of the DBI call going bad... you didn't encase it in a block or anything like that. also, i heard somewhere that it was good to reset alarm handlers at the end of themselves for some reason... can anyone back that up, or is that one of those things i immagined?

update: ok, just out of curiosity... why was this voted down? i mean, no biggie if someone didn't like me having a conversation with mav, that's fine... but i can't understand why this was voted down...

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