TEKRON INC
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                                                                    EXHIBIT 3(i)



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                                STATE OF DELAWARE
                        OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
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        I, WILLIAM T. QUILLEN, SECRETARY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, DO
HEREBY CERTIFY THE ATTACHED IS A TRUE AND CORRECT COPY OF THE
CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION OF "TEKRON, INC.", FILED IN THIS OFFICE ON
THE THIRTY-FIRST DAY OF MAY, A.D. 1994, AT 9 O'CLOCK A.M.

        A CERTIFIED COPY OF THIS CERTIFICATE HAS BEEN FORWARDED TO THE KENT
COUNTY RECORDER OF DEEDS FOR RECORDING.


               [SEAL]                     /s/ WILLIAM T. QUILLEN
                                          --------------------------------------
                                          William T. Quillen, Secretary of State


2406800 8100                              Authentication:      7135076

944096915                                 Date:                05-31-94

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                          CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION

                                       OF

                                  TEKRON, INC.

        The undersigned, a natural person, for the purpose of organizing a
corporation for conducting business and promoting the purposes hereinafter
stated, under the provision and subject to the requirements of the laws of the
State of Delaware (particularly Chapter 1, Title 8 of the Delaware Code and the
acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, and known, identified, and
referred to as the "General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware"), hereby
certifies that:

        FIRST: The name of the corporation (hereinafter called the
"corporation") is called Tekron, Inc.

        SECOND: The address, including street, number, city, and county, of the
registered office of the corporation in the State of Delaware is 32 Loockerman
Square, Suite L-100, City of Dover, County of Kent; and the name of the register
agent of the corporation in the State of Delaware at such address is The
Prentice-Hall Corporation System, Inc.

        THIRD: The purpose of the corporation is to engage in any lawful act or
activity for which corporations may be organized under the General Corporation
Law of the State of Delaware.

        FOURTH: The total number of shares of stock which the corporation shall
have authority to issue is Twenty Million (20,000,000), all of which are of a
par value of $.00001 dollars each. All such shares are of one class and are
shares of Common stock.

        FIFTH: The name and mailing address of the incorporator are as follows:

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        NAME                 ADDRESS
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        J. Klein             18200 Von Karman
                             Suite 100C
                             Irvine, CA 92715
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        SIXTH: The corporation is to have perpetual existence.

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        SEVENTH: Whenever a compromise or arrangement is proposed between this
corporation and its creditors or any class of them and/or between this
corporation and its stockholders or any class of them, any court of equitable
jurisdiction within the State of Delaware may, on the application in a summary
way of this corporation or of any creditor or stockholder thereof or on the
application of any receiver or receivers appointed for this corporation under
the provisions of Section 291 of Title 8 of the Delaware Code or on the
application of trustees in dissolution or of any receiver or receivers appointed
for this corporation under the provisions of Section 279 of Title 8 of the
Delaware Code order a meeting of the creditors or class of creditors, and/or of
the stockholders or class of stockholders of this corporation, as the case may
be, to be summoned in such manner as the said court directs. If a majority in
number representing three fourths in value of the creditors or class of
creditors, and/or of the stockholders or class of stockholder of this
corporation, as the case may be, agree to any compromise or arrangement and to
any reorganization of this corporation as consequence of such compromise or
arrangement, the said compromise or arrangement and the said reorganization
shall, if sanctioned by the court to which the said application has been made,
be binding on all the creditors or class of creditors, and/or on all the
stockholders or class of stockholders, of this corporation, as the case may be,
and also on this corporation.

        EIGHTH: For the management of the business and for the conduct of the
affairs of the corporation, and in further definition, limitation, and
regulation of the powers of the corporation and of its directors and of its
stockholders or any class thereof, as the case may be, it is further provided:

               1. The management of the business and the conduct of the affairs
               of the corporation shall be vested in its Board of Directors. The
               number of directors which shall constitute the whole Board of
               Directors shall be fixed by, or in the manner provided in, the
               Bylaws. The phrase "whole Board" and the phrase "total number of
               directors" shall be deemed to have the same meaning, to wit, the
               total number of directors which the corporation would have if
               there were to be no vacancies. No election of directors need be
               made by written ballot.

               2. After the original or other Bylaws of the corporation have
               been adopted, amended, or repealed, as the case may be, in
               accordance with the provisions of Section 109 of the General
               Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, and, after the
               corporation has received any payment for any of its stock, the
               power to adopt, amend, or repeal,

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               the Bylaws of the corporation may be exercised by the Board of
               Directors of the corporation, provided, however, that any
               provision for the classification of directors of the corporation
               for staggered terms pursuant to the provisions of subsection (d)
               of Section 141 of the General Corporation Law of the State of
               Delaware shall be set forth in an initial Bylaw or in a Bylaw
               adopted by the stockholders entitled to vote of the corporation
               unless provision for such classification shall be set forth in
               this certificate of incorporation.

               3. Whenever the corporation shall be authorized to issue only one
               class of stock, each outstanding share shall entitle the holder
               thereof to notice of, and the right to vote at, any meeting of
               stockholders. Whenever the corporation shall be authorized to
               issue more than one class of stock, no outstanding share of any
               class of stock which is denied voting power under the provisions
               of the certificate of incorporation shall entitle the holder
               thereof to the right to vote at any meeting of stockholders
               except as the provisions of paragraph (2) of subsection (b) of
               Section 242 of the General Corporation Law of the State of
               Delaware shall otherwise require; provided, that no share of any
               such class which is otherwise denied voting power shall entitle
               the holder thereof to vote upon the increase or decrease in the
               number of authorized shares of said class.

        NINTH: The personal liability of the directors of the corporation is
hereby eliminated to the fullest extent permitted by the provisions of paragraph
(7) of subsection (b) of Section 102 of the General Corporation Law of the State
of Delaware, as the same may be amended and supplemented.

        TENTH: The corporation shall, to the fullest extent permitted by the
provisions of Section 145 of the General Corporation Law of the State of
Delaware, as the same may be amended and supplemented, indemnify any and all
persons whom it shall have power to indemnify under said section from and
against any and all expenses, liabilities, or other matters referred to in or
covered by said section, and the indemnification provided for herein shall not
be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those indemnified may be
entitled under any Bylaw, agreement, vote of stockholders or disinterested
directors or

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otherwise, both as to action in his official capacity and as to action in
another capacity while holding such office, and shall continue as to a person
who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee, or agent and shall inure to
the benefit of the heirs, executors, and administrators of such a person.

        ELEVENTH: From time to time any of the provisions of this certificate of
incorporation may be amended, altered, or repealed, and other provisions
authorized by the State of Delaware at the time in force may be added or
inserted in the manner and at the time prescribed by said laws, and all rights
at any time conferred upon the stockholders of the corporation by this
certificate of incorporation are granted subject to the provisions of this
Article ELEVENTH.


DATED: May 27, 1994


                                            /s/ J Klein
                                            ------------------------------------
                                            J. Klein, Incorporator

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                                STATE OF DELAWARE
                        OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF STATE
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        I, EDWARD J. FREEL, SECRETARY OF THE STATE OF DELAWARE, DO
HEREBY CERTIFY THE ATTACHED IS A TRUE AND CORRECT COPY OF THE
CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT OF "TEKRON, INC.", FILED IN THIS OFFICE ON THE
SIXTEENTH DAY OF SEPTEMBER, A.D. 1999, AT 9 O'CLOCK A.M.

        A FILED COPY OF THIS CERTIFICATE HAS BEEN FORWARDED TO THE NEWCASTLE
COUNTY RECORDER OF DEEDS.


               [SEAL]                       /s/ EDWARD J. FREEL
                                            -----------------------------------
                                            Edward J. Freel, Secretary of State


2406800 8100                                Authentication:      9976660

991388545                                   Date:                9-20-99

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                            CERTIFICATE OF AMENDMENT
                                       OF
                          CERTIFICATE OF INCORPORATION
                                       OF
                                  TEKRON, INC.

                           -------------------------


        TEKRON, INC., a corporation organized and existing under and by virtue
of the General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware, DOES HEREBY CERTIFY:

        FIRST; That the Board of Directors of said corporation at a meeting duly
convened and held, adopted the following resolution:

        RESOLVED; That the Board of Directors hereby declares it is advisable
and in the best interests of the Company that Article Fourth of the Certificate
of Incorporation be amended to read as follows:

               FOURTH: The total number of shares of stock which the corporation
               is authorized to issue is Twenty Million shares (20,000,000) of
               common stock with a par value of $.001 amounting to Twenty
               Thousand dollars ($20,000.00).

        SECOND; That said amendment has been consented to and authorized by the
holder of a majority of the issued and outstanding stock entitled to vote by
written consent given in accordance with the provisions of Section 228 of the
General Corporation Law of the State of Delaware.

        THIRD; That the aforesaid amendment was duly adopted in accordance with
the applicable provisions of Sections 242 and 228 of the General Corporation Law
of the State of Delaware.

        IN WITNESS WHEREOF, said corporation has caused this Certificate to be
signed by Andrew Chandler, this 16th day of September, 1999.


                                            /s/ Andrew Chandler
                                            ------------------------------------
                                            Andrew Chandler, President

STATE OF DELAWARE
SECRETARY OF STATE
DIVISION OF CORPORATIONS
FILED 09:00 AM 09/16/1999
991388545 - 2406800


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