>Can you give me a little more info on you setup? Are you running on a network
>etc. I wonder if there are some VSS setting that could be causing excess work
>by VSS when the project loads. ??? Again, if I disable VSS, the project loads
>in a couple of seconds.

Wish I could help more. :-( It's on a network server: Presario, I think. For all I know, it could be that the server just flies....