Thank you, I am going to try what you have already given me. I was using the /aop in the remote secion is that correct? I have already read the /aop in help and I must be missing something it is telling me. I will use a random nick but /aop nick!user@host would actually be "bonehead!~bonehead69@h00045a5dc767.ne.client2.attbi.com" is that correct? thank you...