A couple of things to bear in mind:

* Never, never, never simply move scripts that ship as part of JAWS (such as 
Default, Outlook Express, Internet Explorer, etc.) from one JAWS version to 
another. This applies even when moving from something like 7.0 to 7.10. 
Scripts are one of the parts of JAWS that get the most work during a new 
version development cycle and scripts are extremely version-specific. If you 
have made changes to any of the JAWS-installed scripts, you will have to 
make them again every time you install a new version. Also, Merge does _not_ 
touch script files, so if you ran it and think that your scripts will be 
updated, they won't be.

* Be careful running the merge utility. Personally, I never use it and if 
there are files that would otherwise be moved by Merge (such as dictionary 
files, for example), I copy them manually. Merge is simply unreliable and 
has been known to damage files. Also, in 8.0, if you run Merge and you had 
customized Internet Explorer settings in 7.0 or 7.10 (whichever version you 
are merging from), there is a problem whereby the file names were changed in 
8.0 but the merge utility does not take this into account, so even though 
the IE files will be moved, they will not have the correct names and your 
personal settings will not be recognized in 8.0.

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 Walt Smith - Clearwater, FL
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