in regards to what system it is running on - I have run the Perl code on a win2K P4 2G box, a WinXP Home Athlon Mobile 1G box, a dual PIII 667 RH8 Linux box (didn't do anything to take into account the dual processors, so it just ran effectively on one), a PII 300 RH Linux box, and they all seem to scale based on the processor speed - although the Athlon Mobile 1G seemed to be slightly faster than what its rating would make one think - but that is what AMD is known for (the P4 2G runs it in around 195 seconds and the Athlon Mobile 1G runs it in 300 seconds).

Things are kind of busy at work right now - if I can get a chance - I will try to strip out parts of my code that I am wary of (what the data looks like and the comments) and then I will try to post it here later - maybe tonight if I can get to it.