Thanks to Petru I am up to speed now and have a semi-working Discussion group online....unfortunately the "plus" buttons to open the threads within a topic are returning a Zope error. The latter part of the traceback follows : File D:\Zope\MSEWWW\lib\python\DocumentTemplate\DT_String.py, line 502, in __call__ (Object: menu) File D:\Zope\MSEWWW\lib\python\TreeDisplay\TreeTag.py, line 154, in render (Object: a tree tag) File D:\Zope\MSEWWW\lib\python\TreeDisplay\TreeTag.py, line 222, in tpRender (Object: ElementWithAttributes) File D:\Zope\MSEWWW\lib\python\TreeDisplay\TreeTag.py, line 543, in apply_diff (Info: ([None, (['AAAAAAAAANA=', []],)], ['AAAAAAAACIs='])) AttributeError: 'tuple' object has no attribute 'append' is this familiar to anyone ? thanks in advance, Darcy -- --------------------------------------------------- Ph: (734) 764 3377 Email: darcyc@engin.umich.edu URL: http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~darcyc/ --------------------------------------------------- 'If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate' ..... Steven Wright