>If it's recycling after a hit in less than the idle value that is set then I'd assume something else is causing the recycle. Can you capture the reason in the event log (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/332088) ? Note that the Idle timeout itself won't generate an event anyway.

Thanks, I will check onthat.

>I'm not sure how HTTPKeepAlive would make any difference on this issue - I thought that primarily just affected the connection used to service an individual page....

Yes, the more I read about it, that's what I think as well.