Hi Steve Looks like the updater is coming along nicely. I wonder if it would be worthwhile to do some kinda check the mysql version running, and if its newish .. make the tabletypes become MyISAM .. which allows for the fulltext searching etc. At the moment because a table type is not specified in the database creation sql, the tables will be whatever the default table type was at the time the database was created. For HLT .. we started off with an old debian stable version of Mysql which meant our table types were all ISAM. Ive gone thru and made them all MyISAM which has helped performance a little. I think MyISAM is now the default and in version 4 on InnoDB will be the new default. But If we want fulltext indices we will need the table types to be either MyISAM or we could go cutting edge InnoDB ? Just thinking aloud Chris -- Chris Cormack Programmer 025 500 789 Katipo Communications Ltd chris@katipo.co.nz www.katipo.co.nz