Fred wrote: "Well, it may not be on the splash screen itself, but there is a checkbox item to turn off the splashscreen. (Or at least there is in FrameMaker 8--I don't have FrameMaker 9, so I don't know if it's still available.) In FrameMaker 8, you use File>Preferences>General to open the Preferences dialog. The penultimate item in the User Preferences section of the dialog is "Don't show Welcome Screen".
Nope - not there on my WinXP 9.0p250 FM9 version. Adding the line "DontShowWelcomeScreen=On" in the Preferences section of the maker.ini file in C:\Documents and Settings\Rinch\Application Data\Adobe\FrameMaker\9 did the trick. though. Richard