yea, I tried that as well so that I could get clean stats. I believe I mentioned that in the first post.
I still can't figure out why it's doing a cursor (and a slow one at that).
update: For clarification, this is a 64 bit SQL Server hitting 32 bit. I placed a wrapper as detailed HERE.
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