>>>Erik,
>>>
>>>Did you ever come to any conclusion on this.
>>
>>Not yet. The network admin is trying to track down some other issues that may or may not be related, so we are not working on this one until that stuff is finished.
>
>Erik,
>
>Have you verified that all of your NIC's and switches are running in full-duplex? Sometimes they get into an "arbitration war" and don't run at full speed if they are set to automatic detection.

Yes, but I'm not convinced it's a hardware problem. All other network operations on that machine are speedy, just not table open times.