Thanks for the explanation, jaytea. I assumed it had to at least kinda worked because it was working for this guy in his script, lol. I myself surround each individual condition, also. Helps minimize the "parantheses mess" when you've got a lot of embedded parantheses within the condition. However, if my IF statement is only has one line to do if $true, I don't use braces. Should I always use braces?