I queued up everything into a qstring list, and then write it to the textedit window--that seems to work great. However, if I add any rich text to it the scrolling becomes ridiculously slow (this is on a sun station, btw). Not sure if I can really do anything about that issue, unless there's some way to increase scrolling performance for text boxes (qt 3.3). Thanks everyone for all of your help so far.

Aaron