"bond" indeed! When I picked her & her brother up at the vet's (Jasper stayed with her; the vet & I agreed that she'd just give up & die if she didn't have him with her), the vet tech handed her over the counter. As soon as she saw me, her whole body started wiggling! I put her on the floor, & she stood up on her little skinny hind legs & "talked" to me, wagging & wagging. Then the vet tech handed her brother to me. Just as Jasper got directly over the counter, he saw me....& got so excited he tinkled all over the desk! On the way home, they stood in my lap & licked my face (wonder what all the commuters thought about that!). When I stopped at the grocery store for bread, I left them in the car, in the shade, with the windows cracked. When I returned, they were excited all over again! They're sleeping in their box now, all worn out & content.

Your success with solving the high idle complaint will come easier with a good plan of attack. The first thing to determine is whether the high idle is caused by a mechanical issue, such as a faulty IAC, or a throttle plate that is not closing, or if the idle speed is actually being commanded high by the computer. One of the easiest ways to do that is to simply unplug the IAC with the truck at idle, and allow the engine to slow to the "minimum air rate" or base idle speed. There is no published spec, but if your minimum idle speed is in the 500-600rpm range in park, thats close enough. There is no normal service adjustments required, but if something is keeping the throttle plate from closing, then you'll have to correct that. Most likely, when you unplug the IAC, you will find either a normal minimum idle, or no change at all. If there is no change, and the throttle is not sticking open, suspect air is getting around the throttle plate, which could be a bad IAC, because thats exactly what it does, it allows air to enter the engine around the throttle plate. Normally the computer has complete control of the IAC, but it can fail mechanically, so it must be checked. The last senario has the idle speed being correct when the IAC is unplugged, and then going back up when it's plugged back in. this would suggest the computer is actually commanding the idle speed high. The questions from here are, is the computer getting a high power steering pressure input? Is the TPS spiking low, causing the computer to think the engine is at part throttle? Is the ECT, or IAT reporting to low of an engine temperature? This is where the correct scan tool becomes so important, because it allows the person trying to fix the car to see this information right from the computer.

A Hint: I found the hint below (in caps) by searching the WEB, but it may not apply to your particular problem. A few days ago, I searched the internet about an operation problem of the rear wiper for a '97 Saturn Wagon. Sometimes it worked and other times, it did not. It seems this problem was related to the last tumbler in the key lock and the securtiy system. There exists a Technical Service Bulletins (TSB) dealing with this problem. Check with your dealer - there may exist a TSB for your problem. 1997 SATURN S-SERIES SEDAN NHTSA* TSB Technical Service Bulletin Number: 608101 Bulletin Date: 19-Sep-1999 VISIBILITY:POWER WINDOW DEVICES AND CONTROLS SOME 1996 - 1999 S-SERIES SEDANS AND WAGONS MAY EXHIBIT A REMOTE KEYLESS ENTRY (RKE) OR SECURITY SYSTEM INOPERATIVE AND / OR ENGINE WILL NOT CRANK, POWER DOOR LOCKS INOPERATIVE OR INTERMITTENTLY INOPERATIVE, POWER WINDOWS INOPERATIVE, POWER

Owbist, I have run Ccleaner several times to clean up all leftover install files and registry fixes but the problem still occurs. I can't find any episode in the event viewer that refers to PowerPoint. I think it is really a buggy problem that Microsoft doesn't even have a fix for. I searched at Microsoft for a fix but never found one. I can work around it by transferring all the PowerPoint files I have onto a thumb drive and then move them to my desktop that is running Windows 7. The problem is only on the laptop which I am currently using. I will be taking my laptop with me when I leave to go to Norfolk tomorrow. I am spending Christmas with my youngest son and his family. I fly out in the morning.