Great thought Paul - I'm going to try shutting it off. I haven't hit Virus Checker conflicts for the last couple of years. Do you still see those kind of conflicts?

I'll keep an eye on CPU usage as well. Very interesting thoughts.

Thanks,

David

>>Hi Jason and everyone else,
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>>Thanks for the thoughts.
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>>There are no indications of a dangling object reference that I can find. David Frankenbach has a tool to find them, and it is not finding them. However, I'm pretty convinced that there is some sort of wierd memory issue going on. I've been running dozens of tests, and I think there's something funky going on with MM. Here's where I'm at:
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>When you perform the delete, it finishes successfully, but then the app. gets really slow? Is the CPU usage for the app. at 100%? Just a WAG, but do you have any kind of virus checker running?