OK - no sooner do I send a help message than I resolve a big problem. Lurking underneath the TuboTax startup splash was a Wine popup asking that I install the Wine Gecko HTLM stuff. I clicked "install". Then a TTax window came up (again under the TT startup splash) asking if I wanted to connect for updates. The "continue" button seemed to not work, but closing that window allowed me to proceed. Then I get the TTax major frame with a registration document inside - looks fine. I select File->forms, the 1040 in the pop-up menu. .... Crash - COM Error. None of the net access features work, and I suspect the MSXML3 problem is causing much of the rest of the trouble. -S