Post by Zoinkers on Feb 8, 2007 19:03:59 GMT -5
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Site Name URL Description
411Stocks www.411stocks.com Their motto is "Award winning stock Information ... all on one page." Unfortunately this is not as true as it used to be. They do still put most of the frequently used information on a single page, a lot more information is available through the various "View more..." links.
Additional information provided by www.StockSelector.com
Advanced Stock Information www.stockadvanced.com Meta site. Some of the links are either broken or do not work properly.
American Stock Exchange www.amex.com Information for non-NASDAQ/AMEX companies is limited. Portfolio tracking tool run as a Java applet.
ASK Research www.askresearch.com/ No analyst information. News provided through CBS MarkeBleepch. Company Profile provided through MarketGuide.
Big Charts www.bigcharts.com Perhaps the best site for charts. The Interactive charting has many different options for information and style of display and has a nice Printer Friendly Format that produces a nice black on white chart along with some basic quote and fundamental data. Company Profile, Analyst Estimates and Insider information from CBS MarkeBleepch. SEC Filings from Edgar Online.
Bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com Fair amount of data for companies. Lots of news and market information and links to other handy information like interest rates and currency rates. There is a handy daily performance table of the companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Nice Total Return Analysis Tool to calculate your total return based on date and price of purchase, dividends and commissions paid. Also includes links to transcripts and video from Bloomberg TV.
Briefing.com www.briefing.com Three levels of service, Free, Stock Analysis, and Professional. The Free service does not provide any company specific stock information. It does provide some analyst ratings information and a split calendar, but not much else.
CBS MarkeBleepch cbs.markeBleepch.com Charting features very good and easy to use (charting provided through Big Charts). Overall nice layout and generally easy to navigate.
ClearStation www.clearstation.com Nicely designed site, clean and easy to read, only one banner ad. Nice easy to read charting features. Not strong on financial data. One interesting feature is the Annotate feature on the charting that lets you create your own reference lines. Undocumented Historical Price Table available by clicking on the Chart in the Detail view. Company Profile provided by Market Guide. Analysts' recommendations provided by Zacks.
CNET Investor investor.news.com Nice site, not strong on analyst information. Very nice split history table. Does not provide chat/discussion, but will search other message boards for postings. Charting provided by ProphetFinance.com. Chart comparison function only available in the Java interactive chart.
CNNfn www.cnnfn.com Most of the data except for the news links is provided through links to Quicken.com
Company Sleuth www.companysleuth.com Registration is required for this site. It does not contain a lot of information but it does have some unique features. Its email alert service gives you daily udates on the companies you tell it you want to track. It also includes a domain name search, a patent and trademark search, listing of pending litigation, job postings and links to a lot of stock message boards. Charts provided by IQC. Analysts recommendations provided by Zacks. SEC filings provided by Edgar Online.
DailyStocks www.dailystocks.com A meta site, not as nicely laid out as some others. Pulls from a wide variety of sources. Many broken links. Real-time quotes requires registration on Freerealtime.com or Wall Street City.
Data Broadcasting Corp. (DBC) www.dbc.com DBC is a provider of stock quote, market and financial data to other companies. The CBS MarkeBleepch site is a joint venture between DBC and CBS. Link to news and SEC filings did not work correctly.
Disclosure-Investor.com www.disclosure-investor.com Contains both free and fee-based information. Only the most basic quote information, a company profile and SEC filings available for free. Quotes provided by Quote.com.
DLJdirect www.dljdirect.com Some free information. More information available to DLJ account holders.
Dreyfus Brokerage Services www.edreyfus.com Not a lot of information, but very nice for options and historical pricing information. Evaluation based on free information available to non-customers. Charts provided through Big Charts. Profile provided through Zacks
EquitWeb www.equityweb.com/ Meta site. Nice, clean layout. Easy to identify links. Some links broken.
FinancialWeb.com www.financialweb.com Generally nice layout with easy to find information. Some information like SEC filings and interactive charting are burried a couple of screens deep. Historical price tables allow any start date, not just last year. Other useful information include the Index Components feature that provides price and volume data for companies included in various indexes. SEC filings provided by FreeEdgar
Fortune Investor www.fortuneinvestor.com Nice site but a lot of the information requires subscription.
Freerealtime.com www.freerealtime.com Requires registration for the real time quotes. Generally well designed and laid out. A few broken or questionable features. Market Cap and Common Shares displayed negative numbers. Also the Beta value seems a bit suspect and there is no information on how they calculate their Beta. Charts provided through Big Charts. Broker recommendations provided through Zacks.
Go Money money.go.com Part of the Go Network. Nicely laid out. Links to different sections are clear and easily identified. Not a lot of information. SEC filings provided through Edgar Online.
Hoovers Online www.hoovers.com A very rich site for company research, but not as good for quote or fundamental information. Quotes and charts provided through links to Big Charts. Some nice features include the Industry Snapshots, Company History and Political Contributions. Includes a unique Download to PDA feature.
Individual Investor www.individualinvestor.com OK site, mostly information culled from other sources. Pretty good investor education center. Charts provided by Big Charts. Live charts provided by Quote.com. Company profile provided by Market Guide. SEC filings provided by FreeEdgar. Earnings estimates provided by I/B/E/S. Insider trading info provided by InsiderTrader.
Investools www.investools.com Very little free information beyond basic quote data. Stock screening only available with paid subscription.
Investorama www.investorama.com Meta site. Nice layout, pulls from a lot of sources. Some broken links.
JavaTicker.com www.javaticker.com Average amount of information. Poor charting features. The JavaTicker and NewsTicker feature will open a small browser window that will continually scroll price or news for the selected stock.
JustQuoteMe.com http://www.justquoteme.../ Meta site. Not very impressive. Too many broken links.
JustQuotes www.justquote... Meta site. Clean easy to read layout, links to many good resources with very few broken links. More direct links to specific charting features. Nicely organized grouping of information. Real time quotes requires registration with freerealtime.com.
Lycos Investing investing.lyco... Nicely designed site but very little information. Most of the information is pulled from other sites like Market Guide. SEC filings link to Edgar Online does not automatically search for the company you are researching.
MarketGuide www.marketguid... Very nice site with a lot of information and well laid out. Links are clear and easily identifiable. Institutional ownership information provides a list of the top 10 institutional holders. Includes web links to multiple points in a company's web site. A nice glossary of financial terms is included. Very nice web based screening tool with many options. A Windows based screening program is also available for download. Quote and chart information provided through StockPoint. News provided through NewsAlert.com.
Money.com www.money.com This quote service is part of the Money Magazine site. Has most of the basic stock quote information. Additional tools include a net worth calculator and rate of return calculator. News links provided through CNNfn. Charts provided through Big Charts. Analysts recommendations provided through Zacks.
money.net www.money.net Nice site, but there seems to be very little unique information. Most of the information is provided through Market Guide. Interactive charting provided by StockPoint.
moneynet www.moneynet.com Nice layout but poor navigation. Suprisingly little information. Detailed quote information difficult to find. Options quotes require a separate search. Real-time quotes requires subscription.
Morningstar.com http://www.morningstar.../ Very nice site. Includes some unique detailed information on institutional ownership. In context links to help topics and data definitions. Print option produces a nice, clean version of the current page for printing.
Motley Fool www.fool.com Well designed site. Some links difficult to find. Format for Printing and Download Spreadsheet Format available on most pages. Chart functions provided by Big Charts. Company Snapshot provided by Market Guide.
MSN Money Central moneycentral.ms... A very nice site, easy to navigate and a lot of good information. Charting and stock screening require downloading custom software that runs in the browser. The stock screening tool works well and is easy to use. The Print Report feature lets you select information from different parts of the site to combine into a single report for printing.
Nasdaq Stock Market www.nasdaq.com/ Much improved. Now includes detailed data for non-NASDAQ companies. Portfolio tracking tool runs on a Java applet. Inlcudes nice one-page Stock Report that can be viewed and printed either as a web page or PDF file. Unique sections for information on extended hours trading and convertible securities.
PCQuote.com www.pcquote.com Nice site, a lot of information provided through framed links to other sites. Options information requires doing a second search. Company profile provided by Market Guide. SEC filings provided by Edgar Online. Charts provided by Silicon Investor.
ProphetFinance www.prophetfinanc... Mostly charting. Only the most basic quote information. Quote and news open in a separate browser window. Finding chat for a company requires a separate search.
Quicken.com www.quicken.com Well designed, a lot of good information. Evaluator provides a nice view of the company using different measures.
Quote.com www.quote.com Part of the Lycos Network, it's odd that Lycos does not simply direct users to this site rather than run a different, less functional stock site. Options information requires a separate search. Nice Investor Education Center with links to articles on investing and a Q & A section for common questions. Company Profile provided through Market Guide.
Raging Bull www.ragingbull.altavist... The default search is for Message Board rather than quote information. SEC filings provided through 10K Wizard. Company profile provided through Market Guide. Charts provided through Big Charts.
S&P Personal Wealth www.personalwealt... Well designed, easy to navigate. Nice dividend and split history tables. Stock screening available to subscribers only. SEC filings provided through EDGAR Online.
Silicon Investor www.siliconinvesto... Nice site. Links to information are clear and consistent. Historical prices table clear and easy to read. Profile provided through Market Guide. Earnings estimates provided through Multex.com. SEC filings provided through FreeEdgar.
SmartMoney.com www.smartmone... Nice Print Complete Report feature produces a clean report with selected information suitable for printing. There is no stock screening tool, but the Map of the Market tool creates an interesting graphical representation of market activity with big gainers and losers. The Dow Tracker will produce a table that shows market activity for the 30 companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and the Sector Tracker does the same for 10 broad industry groups. Registration required for real time quotes. Site makes heavy use of Java. SEC filings provided by Edgar Online.
StockHouse.com www.stockhous... A lot of news type information, but very little quote data and no fundamental data or analysis. Stockhouse versions for Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and the UK also available.
StockMaster www.stockmaste... Now part of RedHerring.com Network. Nice layout, generally easy to navigate.
Stockpoint www.stockpoin... Nicely designed site. Links are clear and easily identified. Help is available from every screen.
Stockscape.com www.stockscap... Not much beyond basic quote, news and chart. Contains info for Canadian companies. Evaluation based on info for a U.S. company. SEC filings provided through Edgar Online.
StockSelector.com http://www.stockselector.../ Average amount of information. Some of the features not working at the time of evaluation. Almost no profile information for company used in evaluation.
StockSheet www.stockshee... Nice easy to read format. Not a lot of information, but some nice tables of historical financials. Beta is based on 36 months rather than the more common 60. Some pre-defined stock screening lists exist but no user defined screening function. Charts provided through Big Charts.
Thomson Investors Network www.thomsoninves... Most of the basic information is free, but a lot of the information requires either registration or subscription. Stock screening does not have many screening options.
Timely.com www.timely.com Mostly a charting site, very little information. Some of the links to company information were old or dead ends. Once nice feature is the ability to adjust the standard deviation on the Bollinger Bands.
TradingDay.com tradingday.com/ Meta site. No links to company profiles.
Wall Street City www.wallstreetcity.com Very nice site with a lot of good information. Navigating using drop down boxes works well once you get used to it. The historical quotes section is nicely designed and provides download formats to import into a spreadsheet or other programs.
Wall Street Research Net (WSRN) www.wsrn.com Meta site. Nice layout, links to a lot of good information. Some of the information is fee-based. They do not link to free sites that duplicate some of their fee-based information.
WebFN www.webfn.com/ Registration required. Could not find any financial, SEC or analyst information. Links to different sections of data are difficult to find.
worldlyinvestor.com www.worldlyinvestor.com Generally nice site, well laid out. Institutional ownership provided through Lionshares.com. Company Profile provided through Market Guide. SEC filings provided through Edgar Online.
Yahoo!Finance finance.yahoo.com This is a very rich site but suffers from Myst syndrome. Some features such as Upgrade/Downgrade history and SEC filings are only available through specific screens and not easy to get to. The historical price table will also provide historical dividends and provides a nice download feature that makes importing the data into a spreadsheet easy.
Zacks Investment Research www.zacks.com Fair amount of good information, but some of it is difficult to find.
ZDII Inter@ctive Investor www.zdii.com Part of ZDNet. Nice, easy to navigate. Average amount of information. Company profile provided through Hoovers Online. Earnings estimates provided through Zacks.
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Oops, had a couple "." in where they don't go. 10/10/09
Site Name URL Description
411Stocks www.411stocks.com Their motto is "Award winning stock Information ... all on one page." Unfortunately this is not as true as it used to be. They do still put most of the frequently used information on a single page, a lot more information is available through the various "View more..." links.
Additional information provided by www.StockSelector.com
Advanced Stock Information www.stockadvanced.com Meta site. Some of the links are either broken or do not work properly.
American Stock Exchange www.amex.com Information for non-NASDAQ/AMEX companies is limited. Portfolio tracking tool run as a Java applet.
ASK Research www.askresearch.com/ No analyst information. News provided through CBS MarkeBleepch. Company Profile provided through MarketGuide.
Big Charts www.bigcharts.com Perhaps the best site for charts. The Interactive charting has many different options for information and style of display and has a nice Printer Friendly Format that produces a nice black on white chart along with some basic quote and fundamental data. Company Profile, Analyst Estimates and Insider information from CBS MarkeBleepch. SEC Filings from Edgar Online.
Bloomberg.com www.bloomberg.com Fair amount of data for companies. Lots of news and market information and links to other handy information like interest rates and currency rates. There is a handy daily performance table of the companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Nice Total Return Analysis Tool to calculate your total return based on date and price of purchase, dividends and commissions paid. Also includes links to transcripts and video from Bloomberg TV.
Briefing.com www.briefing.com Three levels of service, Free, Stock Analysis, and Professional. The Free service does not provide any company specific stock information. It does provide some analyst ratings information and a split calendar, but not much else.
CBS MarkeBleepch cbs.markeBleepch.com Charting features very good and easy to use (charting provided through Big Charts). Overall nice layout and generally easy to navigate.
ClearStation www.clearstation.com Nicely designed site, clean and easy to read, only one banner ad. Nice easy to read charting features. Not strong on financial data. One interesting feature is the Annotate feature on the charting that lets you create your own reference lines. Undocumented Historical Price Table available by clicking on the Chart in the Detail view. Company Profile provided by Market Guide. Analysts' recommendations provided by Zacks.
CNET Investor investor.news.com Nice site, not strong on analyst information. Very nice split history table. Does not provide chat/discussion, but will search other message boards for postings. Charting provided by ProphetFinance.com. Chart comparison function only available in the Java interactive chart.
CNNfn www.cnnfn.com Most of the data except for the news links is provided through links to Quicken.com
Company Sleuth www.companysleuth.com Registration is required for this site. It does not contain a lot of information but it does have some unique features. Its email alert service gives you daily udates on the companies you tell it you want to track. It also includes a domain name search, a patent and trademark search, listing of pending litigation, job postings and links to a lot of stock message boards. Charts provided by IQC. Analysts recommendations provided by Zacks. SEC filings provided by Edgar Online.
DailyStocks www.dailystocks.com A meta site, not as nicely laid out as some others. Pulls from a wide variety of sources. Many broken links. Real-time quotes requires registration on Freerealtime.com or Wall Street City.
Data Broadcasting Corp. (DBC) www.dbc.com DBC is a provider of stock quote, market and financial data to other companies. The CBS MarkeBleepch site is a joint venture between DBC and CBS. Link to news and SEC filings did not work correctly.
Disclosure-Investor.com www.disclosure-investor.com Contains both free and fee-based information. Only the most basic quote information, a company profile and SEC filings available for free. Quotes provided by Quote.com.
DLJdirect www.dljdirect.com Some free information. More information available to DLJ account holders.
Dreyfus Brokerage Services www.edreyfus.com Not a lot of information, but very nice for options and historical pricing information. Evaluation based on free information available to non-customers. Charts provided through Big Charts. Profile provided through Zacks
EquitWeb www.equityweb.com/ Meta site. Nice, clean layout. Easy to identify links. Some links broken.
FinancialWeb.com www.financialweb.com Generally nice layout with easy to find information. Some information like SEC filings and interactive charting are burried a couple of screens deep. Historical price tables allow any start date, not just last year. Other useful information include the Index Components feature that provides price and volume data for companies included in various indexes. SEC filings provided by FreeEdgar
Fortune Investor www.fortuneinvestor.com Nice site but a lot of the information requires subscription.
Freerealtime.com www.freerealtime.com Requires registration for the real time quotes. Generally well designed and laid out. A few broken or questionable features. Market Cap and Common Shares displayed negative numbers. Also the Beta value seems a bit suspect and there is no information on how they calculate their Beta. Charts provided through Big Charts. Broker recommendations provided through Zacks.
Go Money money.go.com Part of the Go Network. Nicely laid out. Links to different sections are clear and easily identified. Not a lot of information. SEC filings provided through Edgar Online.
Hoovers Online www.hoovers.com A very rich site for company research, but not as good for quote or fundamental information. Quotes and charts provided through links to Big Charts. Some nice features include the Industry Snapshots, Company History and Political Contributions. Includes a unique Download to PDA feature.
Individual Investor www.individualinvestor.com OK site, mostly information culled from other sources. Pretty good investor education center. Charts provided by Big Charts. Live charts provided by Quote.com. Company profile provided by Market Guide. SEC filings provided by FreeEdgar. Earnings estimates provided by I/B/E/S. Insider trading info provided by InsiderTrader.
Investools www.investools.com Very little free information beyond basic quote data. Stock screening only available with paid subscription.
Investorama www.investorama.com Meta site. Nice layout, pulls from a lot of sources. Some broken links.
JavaTicker.com www.javaticker.com Average amount of information. Poor charting features. The JavaTicker and NewsTicker feature will open a small browser window that will continually scroll price or news for the selected stock.
JustQuoteMe.com http://www.justquoteme.../ Meta site. Not very impressive. Too many broken links.
JustQuotes www.justquote... Meta site. Clean easy to read layout, links to many good resources with very few broken links. More direct links to specific charting features. Nicely organized grouping of information. Real time quotes requires registration with freerealtime.com.
Lycos Investing investing.lyco... Nicely designed site but very little information. Most of the information is pulled from other sites like Market Guide. SEC filings link to Edgar Online does not automatically search for the company you are researching.
MarketGuide www.marketguid... Very nice site with a lot of information and well laid out. Links are clear and easily identifiable. Institutional ownership information provides a list of the top 10 institutional holders. Includes web links to multiple points in a company's web site. A nice glossary of financial terms is included. Very nice web based screening tool with many options. A Windows based screening program is also available for download. Quote and chart information provided through StockPoint. News provided through NewsAlert.com.
Money.com www.money.com This quote service is part of the Money Magazine site. Has most of the basic stock quote information. Additional tools include a net worth calculator and rate of return calculator. News links provided through CNNfn. Charts provided through Big Charts. Analysts recommendations provided through Zacks.
money.net www.money.net Nice site, but there seems to be very little unique information. Most of the information is provided through Market Guide. Interactive charting provided by StockPoint.
moneynet www.moneynet.com Nice layout but poor navigation. Suprisingly little information. Detailed quote information difficult to find. Options quotes require a separate search. Real-time quotes requires subscription.
Morningstar.com http://www.morningstar.../ Very nice site. Includes some unique detailed information on institutional ownership. In context links to help topics and data definitions. Print option produces a nice, clean version of the current page for printing.
Motley Fool www.fool.com Well designed site. Some links difficult to find. Format for Printing and Download Spreadsheet Format available on most pages. Chart functions provided by Big Charts. Company Snapshot provided by Market Guide.
MSN Money Central moneycentral.ms... A very nice site, easy to navigate and a lot of good information. Charting and stock screening require downloading custom software that runs in the browser. The stock screening tool works well and is easy to use. The Print Report feature lets you select information from different parts of the site to combine into a single report for printing.
Nasdaq Stock Market www.nasdaq.com/ Much improved. Now includes detailed data for non-NASDAQ companies. Portfolio tracking tool runs on a Java applet. Inlcudes nice one-page Stock Report that can be viewed and printed either as a web page or PDF file. Unique sections for information on extended hours trading and convertible securities.
PCQuote.com www.pcquote.com Nice site, a lot of information provided through framed links to other sites. Options information requires doing a second search. Company profile provided by Market Guide. SEC filings provided by Edgar Online. Charts provided by Silicon Investor.
ProphetFinance www.prophetfinanc... Mostly charting. Only the most basic quote information. Quote and news open in a separate browser window. Finding chat for a company requires a separate search.
Quicken.com www.quicken.com Well designed, a lot of good information. Evaluator provides a nice view of the company using different measures.
Quote.com www.quote.com Part of the Lycos Network, it's odd that Lycos does not simply direct users to this site rather than run a different, less functional stock site. Options information requires a separate search. Nice Investor Education Center with links to articles on investing and a Q & A section for common questions. Company Profile provided through Market Guide.
Raging Bull www.ragingbull.altavist... The default search is for Message Board rather than quote information. SEC filings provided through 10K Wizard. Company profile provided through Market Guide. Charts provided through Big Charts.
S&P Personal Wealth www.personalwealt... Well designed, easy to navigate. Nice dividend and split history tables. Stock screening available to subscribers only. SEC filings provided through EDGAR Online.
Silicon Investor www.siliconinvesto... Nice site. Links to information are clear and consistent. Historical prices table clear and easy to read. Profile provided through Market Guide. Earnings estimates provided through Multex.com. SEC filings provided through FreeEdgar.
SmartMoney.com www.smartmone... Nice Print Complete Report feature produces a clean report with selected information suitable for printing. There is no stock screening tool, but the Map of the Market tool creates an interesting graphical representation of market activity with big gainers and losers. The Dow Tracker will produce a table that shows market activity for the 30 companies in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, and the Sector Tracker does the same for 10 broad industry groups. Registration required for real time quotes. Site makes heavy use of Java. SEC filings provided by Edgar Online.
StockHouse.com www.stockhous... A lot of news type information, but very little quote data and no fundamental data or analysis. Stockhouse versions for Australia, Hong Kong, Japan, Singapore and the UK also available.
StockMaster www.stockmaste... Now part of RedHerring.com Network. Nice layout, generally easy to navigate.
Stockpoint www.stockpoin... Nicely designed site. Links are clear and easily identified. Help is available from every screen.
Stockscape.com www.stockscap... Not much beyond basic quote, news and chart. Contains info for Canadian companies. Evaluation based on info for a U.S. company. SEC filings provided through Edgar Online.
StockSelector.com http://www.stockselector.../ Average amount of information. Some of the features not working at the time of evaluation. Almost no profile information for company used in evaluation.
StockSheet www.stockshee... Nice easy to read format. Not a lot of information, but some nice tables of historical financials. Beta is based on 36 months rather than the more common 60. Some pre-defined stock screening lists exist but no user defined screening function. Charts provided through Big Charts.
Thomson Investors Network www.thomsoninves... Most of the basic information is free, but a lot of the information requires either registration or subscription. Stock screening does not have many screening options.
Timely.com www.timely.com Mostly a charting site, very little information. Some of the links to company information were old or dead ends. Once nice feature is the ability to adjust the standard deviation on the Bollinger Bands.
TradingDay.com tradingday.com/ Meta site. No links to company profiles.
Wall Street City www.wallstreetcity.com Very nice site with a lot of good information. Navigating using drop down boxes works well once you get used to it. The historical quotes section is nicely designed and provides download formats to import into a spreadsheet or other programs.
Wall Street Research Net (WSRN) www.wsrn.com Meta site. Nice layout, links to a lot of good information. Some of the information is fee-based. They do not link to free sites that duplicate some of their fee-based information.
WebFN www.webfn.com/ Registration required. Could not find any financial, SEC or analyst information. Links to different sections of data are difficult to find.
worldlyinvestor.com www.worldlyinvestor.com Generally nice site, well laid out. Institutional ownership provided through Lionshares.com. Company Profile provided through Market Guide. SEC filings provided through Edgar Online.
Yahoo!Finance finance.yahoo.com This is a very rich site but suffers from Myst syndrome. Some features such as Upgrade/Downgrade history and SEC filings are only available through specific screens and not easy to get to. The historical price table will also provide historical dividends and provides a nice download feature that makes importing the data into a spreadsheet easy.
Zacks Investment Research www.zacks.com Fair amount of good information, but some of it is difficult to find.
ZDII Inter@ctive Investor www.zdii.com Part of ZDNet. Nice, easy to navigate. Average amount of information. Company profile provided through Hoovers Online. Earnings estimates provided through Zacks.
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Oops, had a couple "." in where they don't go. 10/10/09