No. XP media center is not a requirement for control of the home automation systems. MCE certainly enhances the user experience and gives you more features that would not be available without it, but it is not a requirement. We encourage people to use it with MCE because it offers total control along with the enhanced benefits of a media center pc and its network. I think where the idea of 'fluid statements' is coming into play is that each post that we read asks a different question, keeping in mind that it might be the same question framed in a different way. When you are comparing Lifeware to another system's functionality, for example, we are answering with that same functionality in mind. When you ask questions about stability, we answer you in terms of how to get stability from the system. The truth is, there is a mulititude of ways in which you can utilize the Lifeware solution, no one necessarily more "correct" than the other. How you choose to set it up really depends on what you want to achieve, and what the customer's expectations are. Please understand that our answers are not intended to be ambiguous or misleading, rather, we are simply trying to answer the same questions from many different angles.