Thanks Ruben,
We tried turning off the Show Total # of unread posts and the results were good but not great. IN the backend we are still experiencing a lot of CPO being consumed by the database.
I gave our database admin the info you posted and he says he has the other suggestions in place.
Any other suggestions? Remember, this problem started 5 weeks ago so we don't believe that the problem is related to the number of posts or users otherwise it would have been obvious before this time, wouldn't it?
Thank you again for your help.
Helen
