JC Many thansk for your informative reply, much appreciated.

I'm already strongly considering upgrading when I move Hosts but in the meantime (due to my limited expertise and lack of fund) it's not really an option.

I suggest you edit the template for your search, to stop people from searching all forums at once. A simple code mod can limit it to members only.

Exactly how do I do this or find out about this please?

You can do this with WOL also
WOL? <img src="https://www.ubbcentral.com/boards/images/graemlins/confused.gif" alt="" />

or make the summary Admins only, to reduce it more.
Please explain more.

Cheers

Andrew