1.   An innocent mistake in a small, unheralded amateur tournament?

2.   An innocent mistake by the rules official, Trey Holland, who was in the news again last week, only this time as president of the USGA.

3.   A Microsoft spokesman, Adam Sohn, conceded that the message was confusing but insisted it was an innocent mistake.

4.   But even though it began as an innocent mistake, the glitch took five months to fix.

5.   But the speaker and his allies contend that any rule violations committed by Gingrich were innocent mistakes.

6.   Friends and co-workers who forward such e-mails are generally well-intentioned, but the far-reaching realm of cyberspace can quickly turn an innocent mistake into nationwide paranoia.

7.   He said Freeh was clearly shown to have made an innocent mistake and corrected it quickly.

8.   Industry executives said that such cases almost invariably involved innocent mistakes or situations in which providers relied on incorrect information from the government.

9.   It was an innocent mistake, but one that should be acknowledged.

10.   Jones and his supporters say the accusations are false, or are the result of innocent mistakes or honest differences of opinion, and they have launched a counterattack.