souleman, yes i understand the "Risk" in looking into the program, however, i am not doing anything on the schools side, meaning using their network, and I am also not logging into the web to view any of the materials etc. it is all based on a CD...so unless my professor knows my handle on antionline (which i doubt he does), he nor the school will know....
also, once i have seen the beginnings of a "flaw" thats when i will ask the professor, as well as contact the company making the software, if it is ok to "start" testing the software for security holes....
thank you however for the reminder, i know of many students who go headstrong into cracking/hacking the software AND servers just to make an attempt in changing a grade etc....

ps, does anyone know how i could go abouts finding how the software was encoded? viewing it in notepad does nothing but give mixed characters. Thanks all for your input.