I took all of your advice. Thank you. I just ordered a keyless remote from mykeyless on ebay it was about $28 shipped. he guarantees it to work on my 2001 ex accord. plus he provides instructions on how to program the remote. the way i figure if it works great, if it doesn't at least i have a key...Well got remote in on saturday, 5 minutes later had working remote for my vehicle, thank you to all who posted!!!