I don't think your activity counts as hitting it "hard".

I hit it much harder than that each time I check it after having been away for long periods, and it's never brought it down before.

I often open so many threads in new windows at the same time (2+ rows of icons in my taskbar) that I reach some kind of a limit in Windows Explorer where it won't let me create any new windows and I start getting GDI errors. It doesn't sound like you were anywhere near this level.

The only reason I brought it up was not to accuse you of breaking the BBS, but to describe your experience (which you have done) just in case Tom can glean any information from it.