Thanks Raybob, your answer did lead me in the right direction!!
D/L from the HFS website, that's V2.2f bld 155, now d/l from the link in the 283 topic in this forum.
With the bld 283 my problem is solved, HFS running fine and starting much faster as before,
loading the vfs file is now seconds instead of minutes...
Thanks to all who did give info & help