Several Multiplicity quirks

Using Multiplicity Pro V1.02 on a group of two Server 2003 systems (one is the Primary) and one WinXP, and having some problems. All three systems are on the same switch, with 100Mbit/FD connections between them.

Firstly, the behaviour of CAPS LOCK is rather unexpected. It only works correctly on the primary - if I turn it on on one of the secondaries, it is ignored completely, if I turn it on on the other secondary the keyboard's NUM LOCK light comes on instead! If I turn it on on the primary, it can't be turned off on either of the secondaries.

Secondly, sometimes the mouse pointer will keep jumping from the live secondary to the primary every couple of minutes. The only way I've found of stopping this is to reboot all three PCs - and then it will usually come back a day or so later. This is a realy annoying one...

Thirdly, as reported a couple of times already, performance on the secondaries when dragging a window can be really, really poor. It's not always like this, and the affected windows don't necesacarily seem to be the largest of most graphically intensive ones, so it's a bit unpredictable.

Overall the software is really good, and was worth registering - but these few bugs (especially the second one) are really annoying. Is there another update on the horizon?
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The issue with caps doing num lock etc is resolved and I thought the very latest download had the fix.  If not 1.03 will do so.

If you have a problem with it jumping back then it means MP believes the connection between the machines has been dropped.  If you disable clipboard sharing support, does it still happen?

If you suffer from any slow down it means either your network is very busy at the time which is preventing the mouse move messages arriving as quickly as they should, or either the primary or secondary machine is using near 100% cpu usage at the time.