I apologize if you feel we stepped on your opinions in any fashion.
I don't ;)I'm just not so happy about making the queries this way: http://i.imgur.com/u9Nx5.png
Of course I will try to help solving this issue, but it is hard to contribute without testing, since I have no idle server or suitable spare computer around where I could run this tests properly. But my PC seems to have a somewhat similar configuration to your "dedicated i7 hardware". I hope I manage to set up the test environment in a dual-boot soon.