>Don't think there's a question here :-}
>But I seem to recall suggesting this months ago.....

Basically, I create an object for each language I support at the application level:

        Public oCultureInfoEnglish As CultureInfo = Nothing
        Public oCultureInfoFrench As CultureInfo = Nothing
        Public oCultureInfoSpanish As CultureInfo = Nothing
        Public oCultureInfoPortuguese As CultureInfo = Nothing

And, I initialize them in the oApp.Initialize() method:

            oCultureInfoEnglish = New CultureInfo("en-US")
            oCultureInfoFrench = New CultureInfo("fr-CA")

Then, I simply make a reference to it when needed. This object creation for the culture stuff seems to be CPU extensive and doing it like that doesn't impact the process when I have to call it multiple times.