chris@home gave you teh best advice so far: if you can rewrite teh query, redo it so that it is 5 unions, using the agregate example he already put to gether for you;
you are looking at at least an order of magnitude improvement doing it that way(ie 6 seconds instead of 60)
Lowell
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