Hey man.. thanks so far.. okay.. last round you said this:

".... however, are you sending to the same person in particular? I ask
because if they're in some environment
where outgoing connections are restricted, they would see this problem which
would be
unrelated to you."

-- The answer would be "no" - The transfer speed ALWAYS drops from regular
speed to about 0.5k/s after a few seconds no matter who I'm sending it to -
even if I send it to another MSN account on the same computer... (I loaded a
NG stuffplug's polygamy patch just to try it)

Thanks again....