Yeah, On my office computers and office internet connection (which exhibit the "slow to log in" problem I described in a prior post), I was getting constant errors about TWS failing to update itself over the past week or so.
This morning, I just downloaded the TWS Latest "offline installer" and tried it at the office... and boom, I was able to log in fairly quickly.... so it would seem that there actually was (is?) a problem with the older versions of TWS and they are at least partially fixed in a later update.... although the previous problems were somehow preventing the auto-update feature for me apparently...
