Damn, I can't believe that with this "upgrade" that we are gonna be stuck with slower uploads. And I mean reeeaaal slooooow uploads. Why the heck did they do that?
Ok, now just to prove I'm a total ditz, what's the abbreviation MP in "check in the MP for those" mean?
So setting everything to the relative path should speed things up? Or just make it more stable?

And I just got the new Vista updates a few days ago and now when I think about it that's when I started having the gray screen crashes. And I always have  my outlook running in the background whenever I'm working. I also have the business contact manager running... so maybe you are on to somethings here. Would never have thought of that, but I never dig deep into my programs to check things like that.

Thanks for your detailed response Don. I hope I can get myself back up to whatever speed is now possible with the new "upgrade"