Solved! Things improved when i ripped cannaserver out by the roots, but the real big culprit appears to be Konqueror. I'm running 3.0.5a -4. I don't know if it's just how it was installed in my system, or if this is typical of that version, but it is a huge cpu hog. I now use Mozilla - I'm not crazy about it, but it's miles ahead of that version of Konqueror. -- burns