We've run it from the command line and even in the Windows environment to see if it behaves differently. It is not a persistent connection to the database, and on my personal linux box it hasn't died yet. It's just occuring on the actual server (which the sysadmins have restricted access to so that I can't run it as commandline there). There aren't any differences between the OS's, so I'm going to have to dig a little on it. Thanks...