I may be having an ethernet issue after all. I just hooked the gigabit network up, SAMBA'ed into a PC and am xfering 15gigs of data at a stead 12mbit a second

That's just not right... XP to XP it's running a lot faster then that...

Ugh... I'm thinking it's an ethernet driver issue. It's an on board ethernet gigabit interface and I even dropped a linksys gigabit ethernet adapter in there thinking it would be more standard but same problem exists.... time to do more research... 12mb on a 1000 connection is bad :P