Thank you for your help, gentlemen, sorry about the re-post. In case you were wondering about the results on that, the pages both processed at almost identical times: 0.0023289918899536 - 1st hit 0.0022320411682129 - refresh 2 0.0017479658126831 -refresh 3 Cheers, q. Quinn Merio www.vir2lalliance.com -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To contact the list administrators, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]