meh, it's no biggie to explode a pline if you don't use their widths, and are used to using regular lines instead. My boss and I go back and forth on that crap. He hates polylines, and always explodes them if he has to use them. I hate a single object drawn using many different lines, so I'll use MPEDIT to join all the segments back up into polylines. We often work in the same drawing back and forth, so it gets 'fun' sometimes..