I've seen this same thing happen also. I have the record menu key assignments set to behave similar to a dictaphone system, and it started doing the same thing as you stated above. I had the # key set to send, and when it was pressed, it would say "dictation deleted". My issue turned out to be a disk space issue. If it doesn't record any dictation for any reason, the send key will reply that the dictation has been deleted. Test it by doing the simulator and turning off the mic in your pc, then hitting the send key. you will probably get the "dictation deleted" message. Low system resources, as mentioned by Roy Lupton, can also cause this type of problem. My particualr setup is running win2k on a P233, and it tends to lag if it gets overloaded. I hope this helps.