[Lady Fitzgerald]

OK, guys, I've gotten my authors all corrected (I hope). I skipped the first step paw3pals suggested (making the change in tweaks) and went on to the Manage Authors step after I had gone through all the authors to make sure everything was kosher. Some clean up was necessary; authors with Company and Institute in them drove me nuts for a while until it dawned on me to fix them in Manage Authors instead of the Metadata Editor (calibre would just laugh at me when I tried to fix them in the Metadata Editor; the neighbors were complaining about the noise from the laughter). After checking the entire list, it appears all went well.

Since I download my metadata instead of depending only on getting it from a book's filename, when I add a book, it will easiest and fastest for me to get all the meta data sorted out, then just copy the Author Sort field and paste it into the Author Field just before clicking on OK.

Thanks for all your help and for being patient with a computer challenged old lady.