Every project has critical milestones, and project completion is always going to be monitored, at least in part, by the achievement of these milestones and their adherence to schedule. I think that without having to divulge many details (in fact, we don't even necessarily need to get into the minutiae of what these milestones are), Outlaw can easily give us a progress report via this forum, even if it adjusts the ultimate delivery date. Anyone ever involved in project management knows that dates slip, sometimes out of anyone's control (997 anybody?), but I also think that the readers on this forum are savvy enough to understand that, and would welcome any information that gives them a better idea as to how their expectations need to be adjusted. Let's face it, we're all kind of HT/Audio geeks out here, and we love this kind of stuff...