thank you darth. you are absolutely right. and, if i may add my own thought to yours, sometimes in the long run disappointed hopes are actually the first step in another very fulfilling path, especially when we able to move on and recognize, in good spirits, that like all failures this one represents an opportunity to re-imagine; in this case, just what sort of team we can put together. at least in my experience, i'd need more than two hands to count the number of things in my life that haven't turned out as I'd hoped and expected, only to discover that some new path was opened and failure shoved me down it, and suddenly, all kinds of new things pop up that I'd never have enjoyed had things turned out the way I originally expected.