Thanks on that - they are actually artifacts of the scanner I used - it is our office xerox, and one of the points I think is actullay a speck of white out clinging to the glass platten. I have a laptop that I take home to do my scanning on an epson flatbed, but the next tiem I log off there is a bunch of new tracking programs that will be automatically installed on the machine and satrt annoying me. I am trying to not be bothered by them before christmas.