should 'protect-system be the default for Rebol, so beginning users don't hurt themselves? I am surprised that so few problems have been reported given the number of elements that must exist in the system. I myself have used the word 'query when writing sql code. I suppose the only reason I didn't choke on that was that I remembered to declare it as a local var so when the func was done the original global 'query was still ok. -galt