> BTW, can somebody provide me with a translation of the german expression 
>   "den Teufel mit dem Beelzebub austreiben"? 

AltaVista translations 
(http://babelfish.altavista.digital.com/cgi-bin/translate?) translates it 
as

     "the devil with the Beelzebub drive out"

whatever the heck that means! ;-)




     -- tim