The connection protocol is often decided by those that wrote the client software

and what they decided to develop their software in:

Roughly, but not exclusive or correct in all cases.

OLEDB...

It's query and data caching that will speed this up the second and third time round.

I find

DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS

will probably get you back to the 70sec mark,

but to get...

TBOSTWICK-LT - is this the right SQL server?

Do you have two (or more) instances of SQL server installed?

Open SSMS and run

select @@Servername

if the result is not the same as...

The 10GB limit for Express is the size of the MDF.

It does not include the LDF. That can actually be as large as it wants to be.

You can also have...

Or rebuild the system databases and re-attach the database files.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd207003.aspx

SQL Server tries to determine the order of the articles, but if it is not working, you may need to set the

@processing_order yourself

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms147310(v=sql.90).aspx