A collision absorption system including a collapsing armrest. The common controller can be utilized by both developers and users. Furthermore, the first panel has one male channel and one female channel, adapted to mate with the male channel on an adjacent panel. The support generally comprises an orienting platform, a platform linkage movably supporting the orienting platform relative to the base, and a plurality of manipulators mounted to the orienting platform, wherein each manipulator movably supports an associated instrument. In the symbol combining apparatus, a plurality of fingers despread signals received in multi-paths and extract symbol data, and a symbol combiner combines symbol data except for symbol data whose signs are inverted due to fading among the symbol data received from the fingers. LDAP-compatible Directory software may be utilized as the means of storing, processing and replicating the Web customer’s identification information to each of the Web vendors.