Okay - I finally took the plunge and upgraded to Max 3.1, and did the Y2K
upgrades too.  Everything *seemed* to work perfectly... *seemed* being the
operative word here.  

Alright, so I sort of cheated, having tested things on my other computer
morethan a couple of yars ago...  so I knew what I was doing when I ran Max
3.1.

Problems arose when I tried to run FB -a   It said something about putting
a line into my autoexec.bat file which reads SET MAXIMUS=C:\MAX\MAX.PRM
which I already had there.  Then I noticed something funny with the FSE. 
WHen I would use the quoting in a reply, the moment I would actually copy 4
lines, the next 4 would appear without my having to use the ^C to go to the
next 4 lines.  Last but not least, and I am not sure if this one has to do
with my modem, my INIT string or what - but I managed to download the
latest F-PROT from the net onto my other computer, and when I went to
transfer it by modem to the actual BBS, I had CRC errors like you would not
believe.  

I will add that most users have claimed things are running very smooth,
faster than before, and only one person who was uploading a file showed
errors/timeouts in the logs.  Another problem that arose when I tested
thigns on my other system way back, was that the selected archiver went
back to LHZ, as opposed to what they wanted to use.  THis did not happen to
me this time, for some unknown reason.  Maybe Murphey was napping at that
precise moment.

Not being very technically minded, and definitely not knowing what all the
terminology in the DOC fiels means, I guess you can say that RTFM is NOT
working for me.  All help and advice will be more than appreciated.

Thanks loads!

--- Maximus/2 3.01