To be honest, I have no idea how to do the things you've asked me to do. But I think I might have fixed the problem. First, I disabled caching. Next, I changed update links to always. Then I started top and found that another windows program was suddenly the number one resource hog. It's for my ISP, so I can't get rid of it completely. I killed the ISP software, and to my amazement, my internet connection was maintained. So know I know to kill the ISP app after I connect to the internet, and dreamweaver should be fine. It's using just above 50% of one processor now, and that's great. I still wish I could use caching, and I haven't tried it since killing my ISP. I'll try it again soon. This website is so large that it's taken over two hours to search and replace "*/signin" with "_/signin", and it's still chugging along!!!! Amazing! Thank god I don't have to switch to something else.