Wow. EM is converting me to Ruby all over again :) After something like 3 days my project of 6 months is already half refactored in EM. The result? It runs something like 10x as fast, uses (I''m serious) 10% of the RAM it used to, and reduces the code size of the network layer by 50%. At least. It simplified my program into one of an almost trivial nature. Wow. EM Rox. Thanks all! -Roger