thanx for the praise indy
i changed the item delay code and tested it myself, never got above 1% CPU utilisation for MX. Rather than immediately release v0.2d which would have been a fourth version in about 3 days I stuck it here:
http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~mab201/MorpheusX%20v0.2d.exe
and am waiting for feedback from ppl who were experiencing massive CPU utilisation b4. give it a go, let me know if it fixes things for u