Gavin Leader

That does make sense John.  I haven't had a chance to try a JS workaround, but did notice that the Xap downloads by using an HTTP watch.  Unfortunately the decision is usually to just remove it based on time - I'm know you understand how project schedules can make those decisions quickly!  Hopefully I can give that a try next cycle.

I do wonder if this has been acknowledged as a bug within the plugin, or if these are just isolated cases..

Nice work Johnny S... and of course John P.  I've had to bag splash screens on two different SL projects because it caused my Xap to not load occasionally (http://forums.silverlight.net/forums/p/138003/332140.aspx).  Have you guys seen this?