wow. these links are great. thanks so much for your help. i'll keep you updated on what we do with topmod. I did finally get a new version compiled for windows in mingw, but the code for the new functions is still being debugged. I will post it here when I get a stable version of the code from the students who are working on it in the lab...

http://forum.jotero.com/viewtopic.php?t=132