Oh my God! the machine acted uptoday for the first time since I purchased it in 2000. I went out after starting a load and when I returned home I had flooded the apartment beneath me and the bodega beneath that apartment. My super and I were trying to assess what happened and he said the pump was probably shot. I went on line pricing pumps versus buying a new machine and it came to me that while we were looking - we had the lid up. Sure enough, I closed the lid, set it to rinse and Viola! the machine started draining again!