hi, Thanks for the link...I ll check out this program. I use an excel sheet now as well..this is my first year gardening. For next year I have a wide variety of seeds to start, each needing different conditions and so on. I was looking for a database program where culture info was on file and basically you just enter in your frost dates and it comes up with a schedule detailing when to start everything, when to prick them out and so on. It would produce a calendar schedule and even send reminders via email! This is what the seed program I found does but it only has a few veggies in its database...perhaps its for farmers.. I was sure that there would be a program similar to that for home gardeners! Maybe not. Surprising though.

Maybe the link below will help. Here is a link that might be useful: Free inventory control downloads

Interesting: I too use a Treo, and have a color coded calendar on my laptop & printed output but the colors don't show on my Treo. I use Microsoft Entourage (Mac version of Outlook). Either program supports Categories, which can be color coded & then assigned to each event. Since the Treo can only support about 14 categories, you want to keep these broad. Mine include: Personal (me), DH, DS, School, Holiday, Family, Friends, Travel, Recreation, Vendors (all businesses). The calendar also insists on None & Junk categories. You could also add Work or Office for outside the home employment. Apple's iCal also supports color coded categories. I don't miss color in my Treo calendar, but I sure would on my laptop. DH saw my color coded calendar & set his up this way too. He prints out his calendar to carry around a month at a glance for meetings & a copy for his office manager.

Seems like your's was maybe a too-abrupt reaction, perhaps too quick for you to get enough information to understand the situation. What version of Quicken are you using? Is it still within its support period or is it older and support has expired? If the latter, that may be why they said there would be a charge, and perhaps the likely "fix" was to update to the current version? If so, you can't hang up or run away from that. Tech support for any software company won't mess with deprecated versions. I've been using Quicken for my personal finances for over 10 years. While it can be quirky with some things, I find it to be mostly predictable in what it does. I've always found tech support polite and responsive. I pay for a new version before the support period of what I have expires. In the past it was a three year period. I think it's more expensive now on $ per year basis but it's still a modest cost considering what it can do and how easy it is to use.