Well, I could be mistaken here, it's been quite some time since I fired up an LE or M-Powered system, and I may just be rusty. I thought I remembered testing for delays at some point and not coming up with anything, but that was a long time ago. It doesn't seem very likely that any of the architecture would have been changed for the worse, so I'm probably remembering wrong. I don't currently have any way of testing for plugin delay on a host-based system, but if you're hearing delays, then you're hearing delays. I couldn't disagree with you about what's happening on your system! Sorry if I've led anyone astray, maybe I should just keep my mouth shut! Cheers, Pete