yep, that's the idea, jimates.. good to know that it is feasible...i will have to play around a bit to be able to achieve this I suppose..
come to think of it, single stage dialing may help me - some thing like following to dial out of SP2 on obi '3':
3 **2 <the actual international dialing # goes here>
am in the going the right path or should i setup a gateway?(how do i do that?)