went back into the server room after the phone tech left with the ivp8, started tinkering around and....clicky clicky....the click was back when the called were coming in, well, from outside did's I believe....internal just dropped on phone or busy if nothing was attached....

So then I just hooked up my generic home type answering machine that I used last time this happened....created an extension 299 and directed all calls that were directed to the broken voicemail extension and pointed that extension to 299...works like a champ...(setup as a standard line)

please oh please phone gods, please help da boss man see the light and just replace the oldtired dk280...let me work with equipment made in this century.....