I'm getting a little confused. What are the numbers actually refering to, order of execution ??? With 9.4 I had broken up the five increments into a futher 20 !!! This seemed to work although it wasn't possible to check 10,000 posts !!! I decided to go with Alex's simplier method of naming the images <%user_status%>.gif"> (1.gif, 2.gif etc) and calling them via img src= ......but it does not not seem to work.....