Comprehensive Loss (Tables)

9 Months Ended

Jul. 31, 2012

Comprehensive Income (Loss), Net of Tax, Attributable to Parent [Abstract]

The components of comprehensive loss were as follows for the periods indicated (in thousands):



	Quarter Ended July 31,						Nine Months Ended July 31,
	2011			2012			2011			2012
Net loss	$	(31,450	)	$	(29,817	)	$	(173,192	)	$	(105,250	)
Change in unrealized gain (loss) on available-for-sale securities, net of tax	3			(40		)	378			(119		)
Change in unrealized gain (loss) on foreign currency forward contracts, net of tax	(88		)	(214		)	87			22
Change in accumulated translation adjustments	(4,290		)	(2,250		)	903			(4,462		)
Total comprehensive loss	$	(35,825	)	$	(32,321	)	$	(171,824	)	$	(109,809	)

- Definition

Tabular disclosure of components of comprehensive income (loss) including, but not limited to: (a) foreign currency translation adjustments; (b) gains (losses) on foreign currency transactions that are designated as, and are effective as, economic hedges of a net investment in a foreign entity; (c) gains (losses) on intercompany foreign currency transactions that are of a long-term-investment nature, when the entities to the transaction are consolidated, combined, or accounted for by the equity method in the reporting enterprise's financial statements; (d) change in the market value of a futures contract that qualifies as a hedge of an asset reported at fair value; (e) unrealized holding gains (losses) on available-for-sale securities and that resulting from transfers of debt securities from the held-to-maturity category to the available-for-sale category; (f) a net loss recognized as an additional pension liability not yet recognized as net periodic pension cost; and (g) the net gain (loss) and net prior service cost or credit for pension plans and other postretirement benefit plans.

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