That's bothersome about the CPU usage -- I'd lay dollars to doughnuts that it's related to your memory issue (which I haven't had since sr2.1 in P5). Your problems resemble from what I've deducted some encountered by igohigh, who has been almost as frustrated as you have been. :S If you can try that, sometime, please do -- I'm very interested in knowing (it never hurts to have multiple baskets for one's eggs...).

thou and I, my friend, can, in the most flunkey world, make, each of us, one non-flunkey, one hero, if we like: that will be two heroes to begin with. (Carlyle)