Below is a reply received from the Managers of the GV data site on my observations regarding the slow operation of the images recovery portion. I have removed the names of those involved for security reason. Dear Bob, Thank you very much for your email to my colleague ........ The Griffith's Valuation service is actually still in prototype and test stage at the moment and not officially launched as yet. There are elements which are being reviewed, tweaked and tested still. The images are not functioning in the way in which they will do once the service is publicly live, but it will work properly on Vista and other operating systems then. We have recently made a link available on the www.askaboutireland.ie website but really intended it to be accessed only by the local studies librarians of the Irish public library authorities who are testing the service. We thought we had it buried well enough not to be found generally! We do expect the service to be fully up and running and publicly available shortly. Regards, ---blanked---