well, like it says above, the easy fix is to use the classic logon. if you absolutely refuse to give up the new xp logon, well, for right now at least, you're accepting the logon wait time. now, I'm running litestep on my work XP computer, and I have NO problems with it. granted, I'm using the classic logon (since I'm on a network), and I have the themes service disabled (which can cause some VWM problems).