George are you saying they didn't even come to you and ask you what you could do with fees based on any agreement with them?  I hear you - I do quality work too - find a lot more documents than most abstractors - always get reassigned orders and find what others don't find - and I have been through what you have - even with a company that keeps bragging on SOT about how well they treat abstractors and can't believe what others are doing to us.