thank god that Vbulletin does things like that in batches tho some really large forums would really have problems... l remember working on an invision forum pre-ver 2, and dont get me wrong l hate the script with a vengeance but someone pressed the prune button which meant l had like 12 hours of work rebuilding the database... it was painful... THANK GOD l just got my DSL turned on then otherwise it would have taken a week at the most since the db was like 240meg