That's a tricky little file...I would have never guessed that to be the file I needed... Question...I see two line in the file that is related to max_allowed_packet....what is the difference between the two...one was set by default at 1M while the other was at 16M. Is there anything that I may want to change in there??? I have 4G of memory on here so I'm not sure what is best to change... Thanks Chad