I nearly had a heart attack when I followed your instructions to the letter and would you believe that under Advanced Settings in the View tab in Folder Options on my computer, there is no "Use simple file sharing (Recommended)" box? True story, the closest is "Display simple folder view in Explorer's Folders List". Anyway, as it turns out, I had a flash of insight and realized that in the General tab under Properties for any file or folder, Read Only is checked off. After putting 2 and 2 together I figured that unchecking that would do the same thing as the above procedure. Never would have figured it out without your help though, I wasn't thinking about the modifying the files end of it all.... Thanks again for the help. This is also for the rest of the fools out there like me...