MAB and I now have our new machines, and we're back on-line. We're now digging through a whole backlog of e-mail, though, so if you've sent either of us mail and haven't heard back, please be patient; we're digging as fast as we can. :-)
Other than "read/read," is there any verb in the English language for which the spelling of the present and past tense is the same but the pronunciation is different?