LOL, you are not driving me nuts at all....for the last 10 days the only thing I can do is post comments because my internal hard drive crashed (

). At least this way I still feel involved. Things like my computer situation drive me nuts not questions. I'm not a pro when it comes to iView so this thread has been helpful for me too!
Yes, I would recommend backing up your catalogs and kits to DVD (this coming from a person who's computer just crashed and didn't do that

). I don't think you will get around the path issue but I would sure hate to reorganize everything. This way, at least you have a saved copy you can put back on your hard drive in case you every crash (I'm not trying to curse you, really I'm not!)
hmmm....I think you are out of luck with running a search on multiple catalogs. It works well in big group catalogs. I don't tag everything either. Just stuff that I know I will really use.
Oh, and one last tip for everyone iView user or not..... go run a virus scan (right now, GO!). You don't want to end up like me

. I think I'll be back up and running very soon but it's been a very painful experience!