I tried setting the datetime variables and looking at them. It takes about 5 minutes for the code to execute. The only thing I found that speeds the code up is to use a second table with a memo field. I create a row for each row of my html table. Then I do a second scan through that table storing everything in the memo field to a variable this cuts the time to about 1 minute. I can't understand why that would be faster. The machine I am running on is Pentium 200 with 96 meg of ram.