Cautious,

You say, "Add up all the pluses and minuses and the conclusion is - Year 2010 should be party time"

I say that the past 23 years have been party time for the company. It has been fabulously successful for everyone involved, except of course the retail shareholders. If you profiled anyone that worked for the company over those years, they all made out very well with pay and beneifts. What else could you want if you worked for the company?....A significantly higher stock price you say? Yes, that would be nice but hey if it doesn't happen the BOD and ex CEOs and financial partners have already been engorged at the trough. A very successful venture indeed and why not have a party on the company.

Good Luck

(I) C. W.