diff --git a/include/osg/Drawable b/include/osg/Drawable
index 60a78c126..934003ae9 100644
--- a/include/osg/Drawable
+++ b/include/osg/Drawable
@@ -22,7 +22,13 @@ class Vec2;
 class Vec3;
 class Vec4;
 
+// this is define to alter the way display lists are compiled inside the
+// the draw method, it has been found that the NVidia drivers fail completely
+// to optimize COMPILE_AND_EXECUTE in fact make it go slower than for no display 
+// lists, but optimize a seperate COMPILE very well?!  Define it as default
+// the use of a sperate COMPILE, then glCallList rather than use COMPILE_AND_EXECUTE.
 
+#define USE_SEPERATE_COMPILE_AND_EXECUTE
 
 /** Pure virtual base class for drawable Geometry.  Contains no drawing primitives
     directly, these are provided by subclasses such as GeoSet. State attributes 
@@ -232,10 +238,19 @@ inline void Drawable::draw(State& state)
         }
         else if (_useDisplayList)
         {
+#ifdef USE_SEPERATE_COMPILE_AND_EXECUTE
+            globj = glGenLists( 1 );
+            glNewList( globj, GL_COMPILE );
+            drawImmediateMode(state);
+            glEndList();
+            
+            glCallList( globj);
+#else
             globj = glGenLists( 1 );
             glNewList( globj, GL_COMPILE_AND_EXECUTE );
             drawImmediateMode(state);
             glEndList();
+#endif
         }
 
     }
diff --git a/index.html b/index.html
index c67d010fd..383611c70 100644
--- a/index.html
+++ b/index.html
@@ -226,6 +226,35 @@ CodeWarroir's</tt> Make/Workspace files for Mac.
 <br>
 <hr WIDTH="100%">
 <h3>
+<a NAME="Scene graph dependencies"></a><u>Scene graph dependencies</u></h3>
+Currently the only dependancy of the core scene graph libraries (osg,osgUtil
+and osgDB) is Standard C++ and OpenGL. The osgText library, osgGLUT and osgWX 
+have the following dependancies, these arn't core libraries so arn't needed
+to be compiled unless you need that feature.  The demos do however require 
+osgGLUT so its likely that you will typically need it when trying out the osg.
+The osgtext and wxsgv demos add osgText and osgWX dependancies as well, you 
+only need to compile them if you need to a demo of those features.
+
+<ul>
+<li>
+src/osgText</li>
+
+<br>The osgText library supports true type fonts via the freetype library :
+<ul><i><a href="http://www.freetype.org/">http://www.freetype.org/</a></i>
+</ul>
+
+<li>
+src/osgGLUT</li>
+
+<br>The osgGLUT library depends upon, you guessed it, glut :
+<ul><i><a href="http://www.opengl.org/developers/documentation/glut/index.html">http://www.opengl.org/developers/documentation/glut/index.html</a></i>
+</ul>
+</ul>
+
+<br>
+<br>
+<hr WIDTH="100%">
+<h3>
 <a NAME="Plug-in dependencies"></a><u>Plug-in dependencies</u></h3>
 Follows is the list of depedencies which some of the osgPlugins require,
 note the core osg and viewer do not need the following dependencies, you
diff --git a/src/osgPlugins/Makefile b/src/osgPlugins/Makefile
index fe3e09a85..eea69a44d 100644
--- a/src/osgPlugins/Makefile
+++ b/src/osgPlugins/Makefile
@@ -2,8 +2,7 @@
 SHELL=/bin/sh
 
 #DIRS = osg rgb lib3ds flt pfb obj lwo dw bmp pic png jpeg tga tiff gif osgtgz tgz zip  
-DIRS = osg rgb lib3ds flt obj lwo dw bmp pic jpeg tga tiff osgtgz tgz zip
-
+DIRS = osg rgb lib3ds flt obj lwo dw bmp pic png jpeg tga tiff gif osgtgz tgz zip  
 all :
 	for f in $(DIRS) ; do cd $$f; $(MAKE) || exit 1; cd ..; done