Slow server? I downloaded SP2 in about 10 seconds. That was before the campus e-mail servers crashed and messed everything up and before I installed Professional(I had Home). After the reformat and e-mail crashes it took a whole minute to download. The fastest downloads I have done were from Microsoft. Please ignore the horror stories. Just go to download.com and start reading user reviews on any program and every one will have at least one horror story from somebody that doesn't know what they are doing when it comes to computers. If you take care of your computer bad things are a lot less likely to happen.