I understand now. thank you for the clarification. Rlui said that he had Win 2000 and office 2000 and wanted to upgrade. That is where I got confused. I am assuming that he has both discs and is doing it ligitimately although the older (full or upgrade version) can be a friends disc, therefore making it a tiny bit illegitimate, although Microsoft has sort of set up this precedent, by offering their software at lower cost to those who, as their Genuine Advantage program states, "have been sold software that is not ligitimate... "
Anyways that was a slight rabbit trail, and run-on sentence...
thanks for your reply
regarding 'admin somewhere?' -- Just a guy that started out with a Radio Shack TRS-80 with 16K upgraded to 32K. I am not and have never been satisfied with the 'abilities' of an end-user computer, therefore I always push the envelope. This has always seemed to lead to an error or two an in turn gives me the ability to have a little bit of opinion to throw around on a site as great as this one.