It this normal?

Sort of following on from my "unable to sftp://" issue: I've never watched the remote server logs before when using sftp:// , but it appears the ssh-key authentication occurs every time I move from directory-to-directory on my remote server. Is that suppose to happen? (It just may be yet another bizarre result of the "unable to sftp://" issue.) Jonesy -- <pre> Marvin L Jones | Marvin | W3DHJ | linux Pueblo, Colorado | @ | Jonesy | FreeBSD __ 38.238N 104.547W | jonz.net | DM78rf | OS/2 SK