Network Usage with ARD_Agent

I am havving an issue where the ARD_Agent is sucking up my bandwidth. It is doing something and using our full T1 line. This seems to happen everytime I boot ARD 3.1. It's downstream (incoming to my laptop)
After killing the ARD_Agent process, the bandwidth immedately drops down to nothing. I tried deleting all the scanners I have, but that didnt help.
In the Sharing Prefs, I do not even have Apple Remote Desktop active, so i'm fairly certain no one else is connecting to me. I do not have a ARD server set up where it might be pulling information from my computer so i'm not sure what is going on.
Any idea what would be causing this?

OK, I am still a bit confused - Mac2 is your computer, the one on which you want run the admin app to control other computers, correct? If ARD 2.2 will not start on that one, does it give an error message? I really suspect there are traces of 3.x agent causing the trouble, as I have had this problem myself. In essence, if you have version 2.2 admin, there is no reason to have 3.x agent for any reason whatsoever, it will just cause problems both on the admin and client side since Apple completely rewrote the way it works.
And, based on the first paragraph of your initial inquiry, I wonder if ARD is worth the trouble anyway, since it seems you could accomplish what you need with a simple VNC viewer (my up and coming favorite is JollysFastVNC). If you can't connect with a simple VNC viewer, you also won't be able to use ARD, as it's an extension of the VNC protocol.
However, if you want to make this work, let's work on Mac2 - follow the instructions at this page, down at the bottom: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=108021
It says: "Mac OS X 10.2 clients" but it's also the correct procedure for a complete and clean removal in 10.3 and 10.4
Then reinstall ARD 2.2 admin (you may have an earlier version installer, then install the admin updater). Don't mess with your custom client installer stuff. Just install the 2.2 admin app, and it will install the client it needs. I think this will make Mac2 work for you.

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Haven't heard anything from anybody so probably to daunting a topic ...
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