this is my first post. hope someone can help. ok i'm close to break down now. i've installed and reinstalled version 1 of connect a few times and then tried to reinstall the newest version. I get 84% of the way then a box appears telling me that it is optimizing the database files and that it may take several minutes to complete. HA. I left it runnning all day and nothing, it just freezes on this screen. Has anyone else seen this and if so how do you get round it? Thanks