ricuban: Agree with you about what a board should do. And, I am not sure if you should consider Ed or Stephen as members of the board, employess, or what. My reason for that post was to relay that the books were in a total mess when they come on the scene (and may still be for all I know), and part of cleaning them was in order to get DVFI back in the pinks. One of those tasks was to try to see who had how much stock, in the case of Lancaster, Wadkins and Co. how much do they have, and how did they get it, and that was(is?) a hard trail to follow.