I've had many reports of the minute timer not working on some computers causing both Hal's appointment function and your loneliness plugin to not work. On all the computers I've tried, everything works fine, so right now I am stumped. I would need to see an installation of Hal not working in order for me to debug it and fix it, which I haven't been able to do yet. If anyone can install Hal on a Virtual PC where the minute timer does not work, I would very much appreciate a copy of the Virtual PC image.