[Torie]

And they were only frozen for a couple of weeks.

Was it six weeks, actually? I think that is what a partner at Foley in Milwaukee just said on Fox News. He said that was a rather LONG period. So many questions; so few answers.

[Howlin]

For some reason, which I do not know/understand, there is some disagreement about how LONG the accounts were frozen, and I believe different kinds might have been "locked" at different times for different durations.

I do know that at the beginning of January of 2001, the stock was valued at $82.00, and on the day the "locked" it, it was $13.00. I believe I would have had the sense to get out before then.

[Deb]

Steve Cramer said three weeks, but he's nuts so who knows. It will probably turn out that the company employed every stalling tactic in the books hoping they could arrange either a sale, an influx of the bucks California owes it or a bailout. None materialized, so they rolled the dice and lost.

I guess we'll see.