Thanks for the welcome. As for the link, that's where I got my copy of the trial software! So I am still stuck with a willingness to pay for activation but an inability to do so because the pay link doesn't work. How frustrating can you get!! I've sent an email to the author - hopefully that will get me somewhere, but if his pay system doesn't work, is he still on the email address given? Hopefully he will reply or someone else will come up with an answer.