Hey Rob, I've seen you on a lot of the forums. Great work on FreePBX by the way! I have seen a number of folks posting about TCO and needing Asterisk experts, etc. I just wanted to mention TrixBox (formerly Asterisk@Home). It is a great, EASY way to play with Asterisk in a test or even real environment. You can start out using this and then move on to a plain vanilla Asterisk install if you feel the need for greater control. That being said a lot of people use TrixBox (or Asterisk@Home) as-is. TrixBox with its new better update functionality is really great in my opinion. For those interested, check out their site and download an ISO (http://www.trixbox.org/). Also, there is a version you can run from within VMWare. Sorry, I don't have that link handy but you should find it on the Trixbox site. Jonathan