I agree.... I own everything that VI has to offer and loaded on a single Mac. Do I pay the price at startup and reboots when something hangs! The more modules you own, the more you pay in start-up time. To me, this is just not right. I was hoping that the licensing (which I agree needs to be done in today's world of copy happy people) could be consolidated. For example, if someone owns the Cube, rather than scanning all the modules in the Cube, just have one license that represents the Cube. I know it not as straight forward as licensing each module individually, but the end customer is paying the price for adminstration simplicity. I also realize that individuals such as myself who have the entire library loaded on one box, is paying a bigger price than those who can afford to have multiple slaves that spread the start up time accross several machines, and if a reboot is required, don't have to restart and rescan all the modules again -- only the box that contains the sequencer. I'm hoping that the folks at VSL come up with some other solution in the near future, especially as the library and plug-ins continue to grow. It's a great library but the security implementation is placing it in a bad light.