Does Open Office need to take so long to download? It doesn't seem to be the size but, rather, the speed from their website. I had a much earlier version on my W98 dinosaur and I don't remember the download being such a nightmare. I've let it do it's thing on this XP machine but, when I went back to it about four hours later, I had a message telling me that it had taken so long that the process had been closed down (or something like that!).