John,

Thanks for your kind "good luck" wish (and the info concerning your Mom's success).....I definitely appreciate that and I do have hopes of being back home by Wednesday (and without a hip from the recall list). I finished giving final exams on Thursday of this past week and will have the Christmas break to, hopefully, get totally mobile again.

Again, part of passing the time will be spent piddling with BIAB and RB since I'll have my laptop with me. Incidentally, I'm thinking there's possibly an effective/reasonable way to prioritize the MIDI style replacements by RT styles based on a "closeness measure" across various features (genre, type, feel, tempo, etc. etc.)...using some "distance type function" (maybe mathematical and/or statistical in form)....and then again, maybe not; the use of such would be to just get an "initial" sub list. I've only thought about this briefly at this point, but I'm looking at a copy of the BBW.LST file for use as a possible data source in doing this type thing. My guess is that I will end up not having the time to get this completed any time soon unfortunately.

However, if many users pass along 5 to 10 sub suggestions, it won't take long to get a somewhat extensive "initial" list this way either.

Thanks again, John,
Cecil