Yes, that's the procedure that's worked great for me utu. Until now that is. And I only use flashdrives, so with no hard drive in the machine the only way the second flashdrive could have experienced the same fault is if it were in the bios it seems to me. I was finally able to download the file wrapper from USPTO last night. But when I went to use the computer this morning knoppix live wouldn't load into ram. It got half-way loaded and died. It's never done that before either. But it did load with the disk, which is what I'm now using. I don't mean to imply that it is USPTO behind this problem of course, because it's only their fair-minded regulations that have kept me going during the patenting process. But I do think it likely happened on their website, which other forces seem to have access. But I have the greatest of faith in the American people to fix these wrongs. They valiently fought against the injustice of the Vietnam war and won my heart in the process with many very noble deeds along the way. But their system is now out of control and the public are simply going to have to fix it.