WHOO HOO! I finally got my webserver to kick in. It seems my 3Com Vortex 10/100 Mbit NIC has been EEPROM crippled in 10MBit half-duplex mode. I swapped that with one from home that isn't. Now my webserver comes up in 100Mbit full-duplex [thanks to those wonderful gurus on the Vortex mailing list]. Now I can begin to see where I am taking performance hits. It seems my web-mail reader is somewhat faster now, but not as fast as I'd like. Anyone know any utilities I could use to determine whether the bottleneck is the python code or RAM or HD? TIA, Brian Densmore Associate mailto:densmoreb@ctbsonline.com CompuTech Business Solutions, Inc. http://www.ctbsonline.com/ (816) 880-0988 x215