[sr71000]

yea...love that avitar rabid as far as this stuff...peter's right..the only reason doing the safe removal thing is important with a usb flash drive is so that you know windows is done writing your info. if you were to unplug it while windows was writing a file...well..bye bye file ...if you unplug your mouse or bluetooth adapter and it's in the middle of something..oh well..happens...no info is lost (unless your transfering data with the bluetooth adapter, then it sucks again) lol. As far as hardware dammage, microsft claims there can be...but who trusts microsoft anyways? lol