2JM: The Breaking of the Fellowship occured on Feb 26, and Frodo met up with Faramir on March 7. That makes it just over a week.
Although giving the waybread was quite a gift according to The Silmarillion. Apparently Beleg was given some by Melian. It notes that:
"And she gave him a store of lembas, the waybread of the Elves, wrapped in leaves of silver and threads that bound it were sealed at the knots with the seal of the Queen, a wafer of white wax shaped as a single flower of Telperion; for according to the customs of the Eldalie the keeping and giving of lembas belonged to the Queen alone. In nothing did Melian show greater favour to Turin than in this gift; for the Eldar had never before allowed Men to use this waybread, and seldom did so again."
Someone sent me a virus. subjec line was "sexy screen saver" or something like that. My PC-Cillan found it an deleted it when it came in.
Be on your guard!
Did you know that with virtualdub you can extract audio tracks from multimedia files? ;)