Don't worry, Andrew, I'm working on it, and by the sound of it, I think I got it! Future posts from me on other threads will be like the ones I'm making on this thread. Jay, Gmail does seem to have a lot of safeguards against spam, both incoming and outgoing. I think they have plenty of incentive to maintain it, and in my long experience as a user, they are good at it, and they tend to act quickly. I don't think they wanna go the way of Yahoo!! I don't pretend to have a clue what their next move will be, but I'm convinced that if their IP address thing becomes an issue, they will again act quickly to resolve it. If not, I have plenty of other places to go to get a decent free email account. However, I've had Gmail for more years than I care to count, and they haven't let me down yet. I donno about tagging from addresses. I know they've recently changed that, but from what to what I donno. I have a bad habit of not paying much attention to things that I assume don't affect me, and I only have this one address. Hmmm, where'd the topic go? Oh well, I think I got out of it what I wanted, thanks to everybody! I plan to try Pidgin Music Tracker and Banshee .. as soon as I get that ethernet card, which I'm REEEEEEEALY looking forward to because I wanna get off this VM! It keeps aborting for no reason ever since I upgraded to Ubuntu 9.04, and it's getting really annoying! =)