wonder what my new problem will be the next weekly outage first week detached client messages this week ghost units so next week ????? Any ideas?

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Things are looking up as the work units begin to flow. Both of the machines on which I run SETI already have more units than I have ever seen at one time. Thanks to everyone for their suggestions and information, especially Gundolf Jahn for the idea of clearing my local preferences. I think that's what broke the logjam.

I'll report back after the next outage on how it played out.

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This issue has been resolved for me, now. I am sure the key ingredient was clearing my local preferences and starting from scratch, as suggested by Gundolf Jahn.

Five days worth of work in my cache did not quite do it the first week, but it was close. So I upped it to seven days and that was enough the following week. I also suspended network activity for those days as suggested by Uli; no sense having it beat its head against the wall trying to communicate when it can't happen.

Thanks to everyone who provided information. I have a much better picture of what is going on than I did.

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