It turns out I was wrong and all of you were right! But I can be stubborn and hot-headed at times and that's what was running my engines with this AD. Luckily, I did half take your advice. I thought long and hard about doing something I was going to be sorry for (go over her head to the chief administrator).

The game plan was this. I called a couple more times and even told the receptionist to hand write a note that I was requesting a return call and put it right in her hands.

That was Monday. No return calls. Now it's Wednesday morning and I'm so wound up over this thing, it's ruining my days. So I'm sitting there doing some computer work and the thought came to me. Why don't you hand the problem over to (my God) my Higher Power? And that's what I did....asked Him to solve the problem for me.

Well, it's 05:40 pm the same day....the phone rings...and it's HER (the AD).....and I get something like: "Hi Mark, how's everything....how are you doing in this heat." I've know her over 10 years casually and so we had a brief casual conversation and she proceeded to book two more jobs...like no mention of her not returning my calls. So I played dumb, finished the phone call with "great talking to you again" and pondered the next 24 hours over......"is God that powerful that he fixed something I couldn't fix myself in a month?"

You can take what you feel you need to take from that story. Speaking for myself, I've been taught a great lesson in "a power greater than myself....."look before you leap".....patience, and...lighten up on the headstrong and aggression bits!

QUOTE FROM DEANE ABOVE: "Like you I too have had AD turnover that has cost me gigs. Not much you can do about that after you make your initial attempt to reestablish the relationship and it doesn't work out. I don't give up but frankly I have had little success with the effort. Strangely enough, months later I will get a phone call from that same AD"

Mark