Dave, thats good. thanks for the reply. I'm just a bit intrigued; will you be using older machines etc. I'm using a system with 350mhz pentium, 128Mb memory & a 2Gb HDD and its pretty slow when using KDE & data off the cd, even though diagnostics show not all physical memory is being used, ie no hard disk swap being used(I've allowed up to 80mb for that). If you can use a minimal browser (not mozilla) it may be faster. Client PCs reading the data via the webserver are pretty effective.