ggroups2 wrote:

It takes me 3 hours 40 minutes on a P4 2.8 Ghz 533 FSB with DDR 333
Mhz ram.  Is that what is expected from this setup?  I tried
searching the groups but didn't get any similar setups.

Check this out. This is a performance table of all the pc's in our team.

http://www.tope.serverthuis.nl/locutus/performance.htm

3 hrs 40 min seems a bit long, for a p4 2.8.