It does take a long time. PHP must be stopping it. Can we talk about authoring something that either occurs as a background process or at least displays a progress bar? Are you available for development? We would love to switch to your tool as our main method for distributing global content across our network, while retaining the ability to alter it via your parent/child capability. With Autoblogged we were forced to run mysql queries to fix any errors that may have been sent out by accident. We really liked the flexibility of broadcast.