Ugh.. I've sullied my /. rep. The 5.485 price is split-adjusted so, yes, your $10k would be worth ~$550k now.

Your math doesn't include the splits. If you had bought $10,000 worth of AAPL on Sept 16, 1997, you would've bought 1,823 shares. They've split twice since then so you'd now have 7,292 shares which would be worth $2.18M.

i tried to port from sprint pcs to cingular earlier this week but they had a problem sending the request. LNP support said the connection to sprint was down (~6:30 PM EST 12/1/2003). the cingular salesperson said she'd try again the next day and call me in the morning. i called the store and she wasn't even working on tuesday. heh.. went to the store to get my new phone and ask them to try LNP again but they still couldn't figure it out. ended up cancelling my order as i hadn't signed anything.. guess i'll wait for the moto v600 now.