re 1--as long as results are coming in, the sorts will be unpredictable. It's easy to live with, and present even in jum's build. I could dig up his explanation if you are really interested.

re 2--huh? sorry--that's news to me.

LW is a tool in development, and a very sophisticated one. Were you in on the beta testing of Safari and iDisk and iMovie and iTunes too? Lots of bugs. Opensource development standards for apps are sure different from what we were used to with Mac OS

cheers all