At 12:40 PM 21/04/2005 +0000, you wrote:

>I was, in fact, using remote desktop - good one, Helen! Specifying the
>hostname solved this problem.
>
>I don't understand why remote desktop causes the problem. Can you
>provide some more insight here, so I can explain this when someone
>asks me how I fixed it? :)
>
>I thought remote desktop was just opening a terminal window to the
>server, but there must be something else going on...

Replace "terminal window" with "terminal client process" and you can baffle
them with science. :-)

./hb