yep I did restart it after each change

as for that setting, your prolly have also a busy forum. The forum I have this problem is at its beginnings and max 10 users are posting within the forums. Also the traffic per day is max 500 uniques. Isn't it normal for vb to work under very light load with 120 timeout? Also, where's the invalid sql coming from? is there a script something i messed up and i need to repair it?