Ugraded today from and Athlon 1.33MHZ to Atholn XP 2000.. That's should be about a 25% boost.. I was soo excited.. thought the hour glass would disapear... well guess what it was still there.. ever time I'd go into the library.. it be there for upto ten seconds... Raised the priority to high in task manager.. didn't help... then as a last attempt went to control panel,system, perforance... and adjusted.. xp for best performance... all the fancy windows, went back to the win 98 look and feal.. but no more hour glass.. been working for over 3 hours.. haven't seen the hour glass even once... before the change.. every couple of minutes..for 5 to 10 seconds.. I thinked it workded.. So it looks like poser's non-standard GUI conflicts with XP's non standard GUI.. Solution... get rid of XP fancy GUI.. by turning it off... and for those who think P5 sucks..and Judy looks like an alien.. check my Judy out..