Hi, Allan!  I'm sorry we expended so much effort on hunting down the elusive Khelghati and Coleman :-) .   

We've already exchanged some email on the broken SX280s.  Let's let that concern sit in the background for a while.  I ought to fess up on the one with the detached heatsink -- it was sort of working, with your predecessor opening it up and realigning the CPU and heatsink every week (apparently shaken loose by any physical jostling externally) -- then one time I tried to take care of that, and ended up snapping one side of the little springclip :( .

Glad to hear that the unit in 107 could be gotten to work with just those couple parts.  

Please let us know if they tell you those laptop HDDs have come in.  Maybe Ms. Alvarado will find us a good working area for that project.

  Thanks,
   ==Mitch