Thanks for the excellent response, Bart.

I've checked the UIOptions.xml and EngineOptions.xml files and they do update when I make changes to SQL Prompt options.  I'm going to check with the IT guys here to see if there is something wrong with my profile that is making it 'forget' these changes.

The DB I use mostly is over 50GB in size, so it does take a fair amount of time to initialise.  However, the things you mentioned for the new version sound like they'll definitely help matters, so I'll be giving that a go.

And just to re-iterate, SQL Prompt works very well apart from the niggles I have mentioned, and the WOW factor when I showed it to a colleague was most impressive