Andrei -
Thanks for your reply. I checked that thread and I had those settings correct. However, when I exited out it didn't ask me to compact the database. I figured this must be part of the deal, so I went ahead and manually compacted the database and this seems to have solved the speed issues. Now onto the freedb/amazon problem. You said you wanted to see session logs so here you go...

Amazon : Connecting to ecs.amazonaws.com
freedb : Connecting to freedb.mygenres.com

I hope that helps. I look forward to hearing from you. Later. Andy