<img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> Thanks for the sympathy! (Oh yes, nice imp on the barbie joke too!)
As it turned out I downloaded a download manager that Raze put me onto and tried it out on the 1.45 patch. Some whizzbang Chinese job that splits the file up into multiple threads and can get more than one simultaneously.
I fired it up and it started reporting 45 to go, 40, 35, 20, 15... all in the space of about fifteen minutes - until it finally settled down to reporting a steady 10-12. Wow! I thought, this looks amazing.... until I grabbed the dividing line and expanded the time column. It was HOURS not minutes!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/biggrin.gif" alt="" />
Fortunately my friend at the local computer shop offered to get it for me via his home broadband. It took 8mins 33 secs.
Bangs head on desk..... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cry.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cry.gif" alt="" /> <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />
