Ah yes, that Informit article helped endlessly - I'm all done now - got the backend to fetch the info from the server every 2secs using a QThread, then it pass the data back to the GUI frontend by raising a custom event!
Thanks for all the help folks, now I'm off to compile the new PyQt 3.14 ;-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
