some of the puzzles have fallen into place easily - but I'm stumped on how to get the ^&*! Bahro to stand still long enough on the pressure plate for me to get to the second floor and exit. I *can* get there, but not exit before the elevator starts dropping again (found a really good walkthru that gave me the symbol of a stick man leaning over looking at his feet with a circle behind him).

Is this another instance of handwriting recognition problems? Help, please?

You have the right symbol so it must be your drawing.

got it almost immediately after posting - you think the Bahro are reading this forum?

BTW, anyone else notice that the pictures to be copied onto the slates do not necessarily appear straight up-and-down? Almost every time that I have problems, it turns out that the final pic is tilted left or right from the original.

Never did noticed that. Mayby it was done on purpose to mislead you and make the game looks longer because you would draw wrong.