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[Fulminous]

Good evening all.

First off, thank you to Lyra and gotrocks for your input.

I fiddled around a little more this evening and can now connect without error and stable in play for about 2 1/2 hours so that all seems good now.

Final conclusion:
1) had to force PC to use single core of processor via msconfig and reboot.
2) running in Windows 2000 compatibility mode - don't know why the XP modes weren't working but hey, if it ain't broke, don't fix it, right??
3) running in windowed mode, 1024 x 780 resolution.

Quite right Lyra - Aussie based but I don't think that was the issue.

Yes gotrocks, tried WinEQ as admin, that worked ok it was the attempt to update DirectX that was failing.....that said everything seems to be good now so I'd probably call the matter closed.