>>I don't know if this will help, but check out www.emulators.com/Pentium4.htm. There are all kinds of problems apparently. I've heard that in some instances, through put slows down to as little as 200 Mhz. From what I can see, the chip is a dog and should be registered with the AKC. Right now, my plan is to buy a new Athlon machine.
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>Wow, that's a pretty revealing article re: P4s. It doesn't help me to determine if the processor is the problem, but it makes me feel good that the last two machines I have built for myself have been Athlons.

The reason I mentioned this was the various caches (or rather lack thereof) on the P4. Frankly, I'm clueless here, but I'm wondering if VFP's internal caching tied to these changes might be part of the problem. About the only way to find out is to try a different box (read PIII) similarly configured. Of course, setting that up might not be practical.