Hello thd777 and brun021.
Okay I'm back to this thread and will stay here. Both of you suggested that I use the external renderer to get render without the display as I asked.  Neat feature but does not appear to be much faster.  Although I do like it because I think maybe now I can still use Vue while that render is going on.
I wish I had the money for a faster PC because this one is going to take about 5 days to output just under 3,000 png files at 1280x720 using the Final quality setting and 30 frames per second.  I'm using a core 2 duo at 2.4 mhz with 8 gigs of ram and Western Digital Caviar Black 1 Terra Byte Drive. Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit.