dont really know where to start with this one, hope someone can
help. most of the time when my program does a TIBODatabase.Open,
the datbase is opened instantly, but sometimes it takes much longer -
around 35 seconds - and makes XP unresponsive while it waits.

Has anyone else seen this? you might be able to point me in the
right direction.

I'm fairly sure that this only happens in one of my apps (i have
several that all work together), so i must be doing something wrong,
though they all seem to use the DB the same way - in fact they all
share the saem DataModule.

cheers.