Yea the DB is large, 90 gigs or so. Even with it's size we were completing the checks in less than 25 minutes.

I will look at implementing your suggestion,...

First off, thanks for all the feedback. Let me try to answer as much as I can.

I was not doing regular DBCHECKS, as I said my SQL background is...

Yep it's a live, important, production database. So I could restore a renamed copy to the same server without complication? Yep getting credit card out to call MSFT.