Hi All! I have subclassed a cusstom-user-object from the GUF package, but I need to provide the "guf" argument to the User's __init__ method. Two strange things: a) where do I get a reference on the folder (since constructing a user with the management interface uses a factory). I tried PARENTS[1], which is an object that has meta_type GUF, but: b) strange, strange things happen when I do this... the user instance get normally created everything looks fine. I switch to another level within the tree and back to my folder again... suddenly my user-object is a generic-user-folder and "could not lock state for..." messages flush the screen. (obviously I can thrash my dbase from that point on, since any attempt to erase the broken object turns out to be impossible) I need help... FAST! regards, Ingo.