Hi Kirk,

> They have several (less than 10) workstations that take a long time (10-300) seconds to create a connection to SQL server.

This sounds like the workstation is searching for something non-existent. This could something unusal in the client configuration, a non-existing domain controller, or a firewall blocking certain packets. Whenever I have a machine like this I start with using a network monitor (www.ethereal.com) to see what is sent across the network.