There was another book that came out after the original trilogy, which explained the "42". Pretty funny. I don't know whether the movie will be good, but the books are among the best ever written!
Speaking of oddball problems, I have a good one. This is back in the days of Word 97. I was programming 800 macros for a law firm in VBA at the time. Somebody there reported to me that a document which had a "checkbox" object in it would crash every time anybody right-clicked on the checkbox to change its property (i.e., from unchecked to checked, or checked to unchecked). It would totally crash Word. I was able to duplicate the problem and could not for the life of me figure it out. It was not documented anywhere on Microsoft's site. I spent several hours going through newsgroups, etc., and finally found a fix: Create a macro in normal.dot called "z", and the macro must be empty. That was it. That was the entire fix. And it completed fixed the problem. I always wondered how the fellow figured it out.
