tony said:
>   The FB apps needs to create an on-disk website report that
>   the user can navigate in the familiar browser environment.
>   In this way a report become a research tool.
>   Also, I like to print to a separate text editor because I am
>   paranoid about wasting paper, this forces a preview. 
>   However it also gives them the opportunity to edit before printing 
>   and to copy and paste text (i.e. put it in an email).
>   Also I can never create a report previewer inside FB 
>   that is as good as external text editors and web browsers.
>   Last, my FB app is crashing and I can't find the reason, 
>   I want to remove every thing that is not absolutely needed. 
>   I want to keep it as small as possible to make it easy to support.

that's a good list of reasons.        :+)
thanks for satisfying my curiousity.

-bowerbird