honestly, wiring and electrical has always been fairly easy to me as well. recently though, my pride and joy thing has become my cursing and throwing tools thing. it would just be so much more convenient to PnP for a stand alone type of application. I've actually been trying to find more info on making the MS a stand alone. if anyone has any info on this, can you please PM me. only thing i found in the Wiki was for making it piggy back.