Boy was this embarassing to discover. Lemme guess, you're sharing a folder in /tmp :-) Move it to /usr/local/shares and you'll be fine. Now, there's a huge chance this isn't your problem, but it WAS mine and I lost a significant amount of data to it. I also drove a major hole in to the wall with my head when I realized how obvious the error should have been to me :-) (/tmp clears out old files automatically in many Cron scripts.) --- In the works of Spelling, a predominant concept is the distinction between ground and figure. In a sense, the example of textual discourse which is a central theme of Beverly Hills 90210 emerges again in Models, Inc.. Many situationisms concerning the bridge between class and sexual identity may be discovered. ( http://www.cs.monash.edu.au/cgi-bin/postmodern )