If you still undecided try this:<BR>www.flyertalk.com<BR>It's a forum for people that fly 100's of thousands of miles every year. Some of them have 2-3 million miles under their belt. They know every rule and every loophole there is. Once you get to the main page, go to FlyerTalkMiles and then go down to the forum of the airline you will be flying. If you don't find your subject posted already, you could post your question and these experts will answer you within hours.<BR>Good Luck<BR>I will say it one more time, it's a waste of money, but it sounds like you need some reassurance, so there it is.

A few weeks ago my United flight from Chicago was cancelled and we didn't find this out until we got to the airport. Because we had e-tickets we were in a much shorter line to check in. Our tickets were electronically transferred to American Airlines in minutes. When we went to check in at American we also were in a very short line (one or two people ahead of us) instead of the long winding line for people with paper tickets. As a result, we were on a flight that arrived around the same time as our United flight would have arrived. A man with a paper ticket in the same situation did not make the American Airlines flight because he had to wait in the long line for the paper ticket. Having an e-ticket was a tremendous advantage in this particular situation.