when you look at sysprocesses do you see something like:  "pagelatch_IO"  

If so, this is SQL server writing pages to disk and is a normal operation.   I'm not an expert...

thanks to everyone for the quick replies.

To further the discussion, I'm really concerned that one of SQL server's important features was totally bypassed because there was a line of thinking...

I believe I have found a way to solve the problem I describe above.  However, if anyone has an opinion   please feel free.

Tenative...