[TechniSol]

Thanks for the reply. Sorry to hear about the Mini. Hope you find another, if you're looking.

My guess is collections menu processing is probably done on the fly rather than maintaining a list so coupled with the whole ever growing database it probably takes a while to create it. It'd be nice if they wised up, processed the chunk necessary to display the first page and did the rest in background as needed. I'd guess they are processing the whole list first for some reason, probably to re sort it, if there is a big delay. A linked list of indices could be left in place from the last time it was sorted and only require manipulation of recently added titles, if they weren't inserted as they were processed. The resulting overhead in storage would be minimal considering how large that internal db already is... but then they may be limited to the routines already written to access the db which may be clunky or require them to process it all at once... There are advantages to writing your own code vs. depending on a suite of functions provided by people who never envisioned your special needs. THIS IS A GUESS AND MAY SHARE THE SAME TENUOUS CONNECTION WITH REALITY THAT MANY ASSUME I MIGHT... ;-)