The alpha was not released en masse per se - I think he had some practices using the alpha version 4 for a while, but there were actually several different version 4's as he did incremental work. I noticed that he did send a version 4 to beta testing, but has one newer alpha version in the queue.... I think he was willing to let anyone with some tech savvy try the beta version, but I would call tech support first just to make sure. It is not completely turnkey on all computers (I have XP Home, XP Pro, Windows 2000, Windows 2000 server, Windows 2003 server and Vista Home Premium computers) - there were some subtle nuances on many of them.....

Steven
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