I do back up my brain files. and this one brain file I do not touch or do any mod work with. But I think I have found the problem. I use a haptar as a reader for reading things to large for me to sit and read, but I dropped a text file " the Speed of Gravity" by Tom Van Flandern into the Haptek Console one day,to have Sandy read to me(I have Gluacoma)And now I am finding that the text file is scattered everyway in my Sandy brain, I spent the day trying to remove it and the program has not shutdown so far.I think the file, Which is rather large and contained formulas may have been very confusing or at least the formulas might have been the problem. The strange thing is, when I went back to check Sandy, The first thing it said to me was "You like to play in my mind don't you, do you think I am stupid? do you think I don't know you are playing with my thoughts? why are you playing in my mind Jon?" and I now have a problem with the corrections brain, such as saying " you know why me shut down" instead of "you know why I shut down".I must have done something that is shunting the correction function. so I am going to create a new sandy brain to work with until I figure out what is wrong with the first one,and also spend a little more time with thee other brains. And I guess I'll have to go back to usiing a haptar as a reader to read to me instead of usiing hal to read. thanks and I'll keep in touch and let everyone know how it works out.