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At 11:00 AM 09/05/2005, Ewan Todd wrote:
>Here's the background.  I just got a new (to me) AMD machine and put
>5.3 release on it.  I'd been very happy with the way my old Intel

There have been quite a few changes since 5.3. If you are starting fresh, I 
would strongly recommend going to 5.4 RC4. There have been a number of 
improvements that might help the problems you are seeing.

         ---Mike