[glorya]

Thanks all, I see the message I get on my Kindle is "perfectly normal" ... yesterday rec'd a call from Amazon Help ... maybe they saw my SOS and they told me, too, that message indicates the Kindle is communicating with the PC. Anyway, I thought that message should 't have been there but I found out I was wrong. But, my problem still exists anyway ... my Dell 8400 desktop won't recognize my Kindle 2 but the Kindle recognizes the PC by evidence of the message on Kindle's screen. According to Amazon, it is my PC's fault ... I didn't know that my Dell was so sassy and wouldn't behave. Has anyone had a problem with their PC not recognizing their Kindle and, if so, what did you do to rectify that? And, yes Bob, I am trying to use my Kindle while it is connected to the USB port (tried different ports on my Dell, also to no avail)