And that ongoing mediation and related uncertainty may explain the other thing that has bugged me, i.e., PTSC's failure to use existing cash on hand toward more share buy-back. It may be that they're holding that cash in case they need it (well, hopefully only a bit of it) to settle the dispute with the FFT. Man, IF (BIG IF) I'm "on" today, I may have come up with reasonable explanations for the two things that have been bugging me most (Sony, and this). But, alas, I KNOW nuttin'! SGE