After seeing the "free sketchup" thread I decided to take a look.
I downloaded the program according to the instructions and everything appeared to work fine. HOWEVER, when I tried to open the program and run I get a pop-up error report labled "Bug Splat" and the program does not start.
I went to the Sketch-up site and tried to determine what might have been the problem. One of the suggestions if download problems were encountered was to try downloading with a different browser.
I uninstalled Sketchup and downloaded it using both Mozilla Firefox, and IE, clearing all cookies and temporary internet files between each attempt. Tried twice with each browser ----- SAME FAILURES.
ANY CLUES ?????????