I think it is more the time taken. There could be a number of reasons why I'm getting the errors I'm getting and it will take time to alter things and then see how it effects the error before finding the fix that fixes things. If he spends a couple hours on it and he used to make a couple hundred bucks an hour for doing that... Well... Lets just say that we aren't *that good* friends. And then there is also the issue that he gave up his high powered job in order to do a PhD in philosophy and he said that he really hates computer programming...