Thanks - but you missed the point I think. I don't feel 'guilt' about not sharing - I WANT TO SHARE - this is the whole point of the excercise after all.

Re: other clients - I have them all. I get thoroughly disappointed at the efficiency of them and tend to turn them off - especially when I see users leech on with absolutely nothing to share in return.

Short term I will run two copies of the program, one for downloading and one sharing. Wasn't the way I wanted to do it but it's better than any of the suggestions which have been mentioned so far.

I would still like to know about the access violations mentioned in my original post - if anyone has any technical knowledge of the program please - I would very much like to know the answer.

Happy