thanks again... yah... I am wondering if the development team forgot to take some real-world systems related issues into account when designing their code...

The issue that stings the most here is that the server we are executing this code on is sitting idle. It's a development server that we use to test various things on and is not being hit by a large number of users.

My boss tends to think it is some sort of disk IO problem. I am leaning towards agreeing with him but think I had better cover all my bases.

Wish me luck, I will need it...