Jerry,

>The possibility they were accessing some of the same files and were encountering record locking? (From the wild-guess-dept)

Nope, all three apps access their own data, no overlap.

And I have been told that as the day wore on the stalling started again, so I am back to thinking it has to be memory (except this is on a machine with 128 MB of RAM...)

Have a great weekend!

JoeK