Thank you for the replies guys. I was pretty much set on LS already, with a tiny nod to geoshell. I just wonder about scaling LS down, making it unobtrusive, and STABLE! I'm using an iBook for my internet/typing/e-mail, and I really dig that I can restart the Finder and a lot of memory leaks are purged. I don't have to restart the computer! Does the recycle feature of LS compare to that?