Ahhhh... thanks that makes sense. This brings up a different question however. Is there someway that files can turn up in search results even if the owner of the file is offline? Several times I got back a result from a search that gave the requery sent, waiting.... message. However, when I researched the same file reappeared still giving the requery message. As the user can't be online according to you, why is his files still showing up in searches?