my WeblogData.root file seems to be OK after the Data compacting process hung up when it hit this file..  at least from what I could tell by the dispaly in the Status bar of the Radio app.  It seems Ok becuase I went back and edited my very first Radio entry from June 2, 2002.  It all seemed to re-publish just fine.  My weblogdata.root file is 5626 KB.  The only way I could get the hourglass to stop was to trerminate the Radio app from the Windows  Task Manager.  When I restrted Radio,  all my data seems fine (ie. the edit of the very first entry went fine,  and a new entry went up fine,  which seems that would take care of the beinning and end of the file).