> Thanks, i've downloaded the link, and will start reading.
> However, I'm still confused, does the peculiar statistics on
> transactions have anything to do with the connection problems?
> Thanks..
>
> Regards,
> Faisal

I wouldn't be surprised. You have an enormous amount of unfinished business
in your database.
Do a backup and restore while you are reading, (don't overwrite the file),
and try to connect again on the restored database to see.
Alan