of course you can! in fact, you just did: "...I really don't want to hold at the sub dollar level again..." Barclays Global Fund (reported 6/30/03) holds around 560K shares. <A HREF="http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/invsub/ownership/ownership.asp" target="_new">http://moneycentral.msn.com/investor/invsub/ownership/ownership.asp</A> Dave Nadig was Managing Director of that fund until 1998. <A HREF="http://www.nadig.com/Professional/NadigCV.html" target="_new">http://www.nadig.com/Professional/NadigCV.html</A> interesting. the answers to the other questions are previously posted.