CJ, sorry it wasn't a help.
But your post gives me the chance to correct the impression I gave in an earlier post that
too much RAM can be bad. Not so. I was mis/half remembering an old DOS/Win3.1 limit.
From Win95 on it has been possible to use 2GB RAM (4GB in some cases). So my 288MB is puny and your ˝GB is handsome!