Jacque- Thursday, May 19, 2005, 8:08:54 AM, you wrote: JLG> I think Dave's astute observation about nested repeat loops was JLG> accurate. When I remove the "repeat 1000" loop from both your test Yes it was. I think Dar was trying to tell me the same thing, but I ignored it at the time. -- -Mark Wieder mwieder at ahsoftware.net