I let the garabage collecter patch with jum350 and the zab/kapsi .bsh (thanks all) run for 20 hrs this weekend , but the VM still grew to 1.12 GB. The good news is that real memory looked lower (61 MB).

Activity monitor showed 5 hangs--probably during the 20 mins or so it took to refresh the gui in the morning.

If anyone wants the stats, I'll zip and send them.