4th try... Tried to reply but got the MSQL crap, so here goes again... Whenever the site upgrades, the peak number of logged-on members increases to a higher max. It's like road-building to ease congestion -- the traffic just builds to a new, denser peak of congestion. Maybe the time has come (and I'm going to hide behind the sofa after sending this) to bring in an annual subscription. This need not be much. $5 would probably be enough. But it would discourage:- a) Pointless clone accounts. b) Memebers signing up friends, neighbours, passers-by and their pets in order to solicit "Woooo! fantastic -- you are such a talented artist"-type messages in the galleries. c) Idle bandwidth-sucking forum-lurking. Now, where's that sofa? ;)