Hi Dragan,
>>As a follow-up to all. MS and I have been beating this machine for the last couple of weeks. It turned out to be a networking problem. Installing NETBUI seems to have solved it.
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>This is weird. NetBEUI is known to be an outdated protocol, causing lot of network collisions which rise exponentially as number of boxes in a network goes over four or five.

I believe the number where NetBEUI start to get slower was about 20 - 25 boxes. NetBEUI is very fast for small networks.

>It's been a number of years since I saw anything but TCP/IP installed anywhere. Really weird.

I've seen/read about NetBEUI coming to the rescue in a few similar scenarios: active directory looking anywhere, token ring cards in the network... Probably there are other ways to clean up each of the "bad nets", but NetBEUI is a trick not to dismiss. It's just not that easy to find on the newer OS'es.

My 0.02 EUR

thomas