celticvoice LOLLL! Marvelous! Thanks for the GENEROUS offer! I allus have my faithful K1000 and my leeetle HP not-great-quality digicam! ANYWAY,as it turned out: I loaded a new disk, which it "saw", and an older disk, which it "saw". Then I initalized a new one, took a couple shots (posted here) and ::zap:: the battery was dead!. THEN I plugged it in to use the power cord (and recharge it), and it read the other disk - which is blank! I had not taken any pics yet! - but the cam was stuck on "disc access" for some reason. All is ok now. I keep telling Ed I want 1) a backup Mavica (cheep on eBay now, about $125) AND I want 2) a new cam like Donna's, more zoooooooooom! I don't want much! HAHAHA!