Ok, so I've got my first result, and a sescond computer doing nothing but crunching numbers ;-)
Congrats Phillip! It seems that patience and the aid of another computer did the trick. Thanks for helping!!
My PIII 600 here at work wasn't cutting it. So I enlisted the assistance of my PIV 3.0Ghz machine at home. Here it took 1.1days to earn 300pts. At home, it was a measly 15 minutes or something like that.
It's all in the machine ;-)