you are the new 'bob.' (i used to follow bob around. i still sorta do. he's just a sort of no-nonsense,nonchalant guy). alistair - we'd never known, unless you shared all of this with us! very profound sense of compositional 'rightness.' your program was 'just right,' too, in terms of composition balance. i really do wish that i could have met you and heard jonathan powell play your work.