Baz / Alan / Leon, Thanks for the advice. I went for Edgy rather than Dapper because (AIUI), MySQL5 was standard in Edgy and MySQL4 in Dapper - and the codebase we are running needs MySQL5 - (lots of stored procedures: in fact, as of last night, exactly 100 of them!) I think I'll stay with Edgy for the server farm. Regards, Mark