> I am not not familiar with all issues that may have existed,
> but I can confirm that at least one HT issue remains with
> FB v1.5.2 (superserver).
>

Hi,

I experience a similar problem, however, my tests reveal that it
occures also on single CPU without HT, given that the OS is Win 2003.
In my case the pause is always 60 seconds long. I submitted a FB bug
report (1021143) half year ago.

Regards,
Michal