>Hi,
>
>For my sins I still have the 'Start Page' loaded by default in the VS IDE. Every morning I get the 'Updating the news channel....' message on startup. Seems to me it's been wasting its time for the last 6 months - there doesn't appear to have been any new content since last March!


Have a look at http://www.emoreau.com/Entries/Blogs/2008/03/Start-Page-Content-pane.aspx