>I'm working on a C,Net 2003 project that is under source control with VSS. Opening the solution takes about 5 minutes, and opening
>a form or class takes forever. The VSS database is hosted at our company's Massachusettes location and I'm in CA. Is there any way
>to speed this up?

Take a look at Source OffSite from SourceGear. It's mean to address this specific issue.

http://www.sourcegear.com/sos/