As you are in Bali (beautiful part of the world!!), could it be that you've been in proximity ot the sun-kissed beaches there, and you've somehow got a grain or two of sand inside the housing? Maybe you were changing lenses on or near the beach, and a light breeze has carried this sand inside your camera? I'd try a sensor cleaning function (the vibration thingy) to see if it alleviates your problem.

Welcome to the site!!..

Last time I was in Helsingfors was in 1988, as a courier, when I worked for TNT. I stayed at the Rantasiipi Hotel (I hope I spelt it right!) at Vantaa airport, and took the airport bus from the hotel to downtown Helsinki. The architecture and cleanliness was amazing! I seem to recall though, that your parliamentary building was in need of a spot of stone cleaning!

The TNT driver that picked me up from the airport terminal to the delivery point was a madman!! I'm still not sure if he was a courier-driver, or one of your country's rally drivers!!

Not sure of Plusnet's set-up, but if you first have a look in your list of OTHER PROGRAMS (from your start menu), then see if Plusnet has a program file listed there, click on it (if it exists) to expand it, then see if there is a line similar to "UNINSTALL PLUSNET EMAIL" (or similar). If so, click it to start the uninstaller.

If the above doesn't help, phone Plusnet's customer services team - they should be able to talk you through it, or even remotely access your screen (with your permission) to uninstall it for you.

Finally, if you are using Outlook as your default mail program, click on the tab that allows you to ADD/REMOVE EMAIL PROFILES, then simply delete the Plusnet account, then set A.N. OTHER as your default email provider.

Jim - by "PLUS", are you referring to YAHOO PLUS??..

I'm sure Germaine Greer referred to them as something else though!!

It's a pity about the modern-day Merc being in the 1st three photos - it kinda kills the "olde-worlde" feel of the pic, which would look great with a vintage sepia tint!

Kris - it certainly has the makings of a great poster. I also think it works a a picture postcard. If Sibiu were to produce a tourism brochure, it would also work as a front cover - the idea being that the many doors are the many entrances to the hidden treasures that may await visitors.

Definitely A for the sycamore seeds. As for C and D, I can't choose either, as (to my mind anyway) both images are "flat" - by that I mean, maybe if you'd timed it better, you might have captured a wave crashing over the rock, making the shot a bit more dramatic... Or, have I missed the point of what these 2 shots are meant to be about?

Rob - I tend to run my malware program just before I go to bed every night. Since the missus has a tendency to do a lot of internet shopping from reputable sites whilst I'm at work, and chatting with her friends in Thailand, I pretty much know where any potential threats are coming from on the home pc. The office pc (I'm on it now) tends to get bombarded with spam, and other sorts of rubbish due to the fact that I work for an international courier company. Thankfully, the foreign-language messages and the likes get put through a translation program first. Any that (for whatever reason) will not translate from the native language into English gets consigned to Room 101!!

I'm not doubting their use, Will!!.. All I'm saying is that what you posted is entirely different to how the Magic Bullet works as I remember it. HIRENS BOOTDISK is really a selection of programs that the user has to manually choose which program(s) to run, whereas, Magic Bullet was simply inserted into the A: (floppy disk) drive with the pc switched off, then when you switched on with the disk inserted, absolutely no user input was required as far as manual selection goes. I did actually previously state this, as per my post timed at 15:36 today.

PS: I DID bother to look!!

Of the antivirus tools, I'd highly recommend SUPERANTISPYWARE!.. I use this at home, and I run it every night before I go to bed.