Hi Alan - one quick note - the project mode = closest pt is a bit unreliable especially if the curves involved would cross over the "seam" edge of the sphere.

So you may need to rotate your sphere so that the seam edge is not in that area.

Also I don't think that the projection method will work very well with a longer string of text because the projection will tend to kind of collapse down.

You can also try the rotation method that I mentioned before.

- Michael