just based on some examples I found. tried your approach. Worked great.

I did a successions of shrinks and backups and got the log file to a very small size which got ride of the unused VLF's. I am now in...

yes I do have a lot of VLF's(2618). So i assume I would shrink it as small as I could and then grow it to the 15 gig's

so I should shrink the log file and then let it grow for a while to determine it's normal size and then add 5-10 gigs.

I made the mistake of returning the customer data with the detail data thinking that when the customer data changed I would get a page break. Since I am...

Those are some great questions that I will need to research. The article indicates that backup restore are a better solution for large databases. I'll let you know...