Have you checked out DNSKong? I briefly looked at it - it was linked via a HOSTS-information page on the main site you provided. http://www.accs-net.com/hosts/

I've also gone and disabled my DNS and DHCP client services. I had been playing with this the night before last already, even before the whole HOSTS issue. Now to do a reboot to make sure it doesn't affect the other machine on the net (shouldn't since I gave it a static IP and think I have static gateway and dns information as well).

Oh, after these changes, findempeg takes a FRACTION of a second (instead of multiple seconds) to make its one-line change to my long hosts file. Excellent.

Bruno