FogCity,
Sorry you are still having problems. Troubleshooting can be a pain. When I first got AC in 2003 (and Jon probably remembers this), it would just crash and burn three to four times a day. We would have to turn them all off and fix the databases. This was back in the day of having to have them all off to fix the database (which is a good idea anyway). To make matters worse, in the good old peer-to-peer days, some users had the fast user switching thing and when AC was shut down on any computer, it would sometimes run in the background. You would have to use Task Manager to find out. So, with fast user switching, you would have to actually go into each one and check if you couldn't fix the database. Everyone in the office knew the drill and knew which computers to cover. We had a game plan.
But as fast as it happened (for at least a month -- with tons of support from Jon), it went away. Same version. The only thing I did AND I KNOW THIS SHOULD'T MAKE A DIFFERENCE, but I installed Access on the pseudoserver. Shouldn't matter, but it never happened again. Coincidence? Probably.
By the way, and don't take this personally and it probably doesn't matter on a peer-to-peer that is working, but you can't use XP Home or most home versions on a domain. And, I recall one of my "guru" networking friends saying "What is it about home that offices don't understand?" I got the point and my friend changed to all Vista Business from XP Home.
Good luck. We will hang with you.
