Tim,
   Thanks for the suggestion to change to the "Sync" mode .....  that fixed it. I appreciate.

Guess I need to read more carefully. 

Any suggestions on how to clean this up?  If I close and reload it's clean but it soon overpaints to where my map is unreadable.

Fantastic Idea and lots of information.  Unfortunately my graphics won't refresh properly and I end up with a mass of color wiping out the map. It's probably just a setting but I can't find it.  Also .... it doesn't import my flight plan for some reason, example:  Phoenix to Dallas.  I see a trail, I see that's it's following my flight path in the cockpit ... (GPS).  My system is a Q6600 with a Nvidia 8800 GTX and a OCZ Vertex2 for the hard drive. My connection is Verizon ....  any ideas anyone and I'll try them out.  In the meantime I'll keep learning ....   :^))