I gigantic thank you goes to Indy.
If this were Experts-Exchange, I'd award you 5 million points even though the max is only 500.
Seems like your ideas were correct. I removed network drive, then uninstalled AC from that client. I ran Registry Boost 2, to clear up any registry errors, then rebooted computer.
Next I created the mapped drive to the server's AC folder. And I installed AC.
Boom! connection speeds to the database are par with the other computers on network, 0.3-0.4 seconds. That down from 12 seconds.
thanks Indy!!!
