the longest map of my life

I was told to re install guild wars for a certan problem i had with npcs jumping around and al ot of white cubes, so my question is....

when i re-install guild wars and try to play a character, what takes so long for it to load the map, last night i left it running and it completed it, but at the very end i loged out, i guess, and lost all the stuff i downloaded from maping, there was about 4,000 something, so I did it again and now theres 8,000. Is there any way to make this process go by faster?

thanks....

and another question, will i have to do this with all of my characters, in every town?

Try adding '-image' to your Guild Wars startup. All content will be downloaded once, so you won't have to wait anymore when switching towns. Might take some time though.

http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...42&postcount=1

Oh, and after downloading all data, remove the '-image' from the shortcut.

Once you do a reinstall, you got a lot of files to download again, it takes a few slow loads for all the updates to be reinstalled. Using the -image switch will get you around that.