rcponting,
Sorry for the flippant comments back there, wasnt very constructive on my part.
You are so off-base with your comments about gold as a fashionable commodity I almost dont know where to start.
Try this - have a read of James Turk's "The Coming Collapse of The Dollar & How to profit From It". It was published in 2004, pretty much everything the author predicts has happened or is happening.