> subobjects because acquisition only looks at object attributes. It > doesn't know anything about _getOb(). (And it's not a good idea to > teach it to use _getOb(); think what it would be like if a Xeon ran like > a 386...) I remember the days when... ;-) Seriously though, why would that make it so slow? Is _getOb() often an expensive operation? thanks for all the info, Chris