Unable to see permission granted to role

From: Annapurna (ngsiewchoo_at_pacific.net.sg)
Date: 08/31/03 

Date: Sat, 30 Aug 2003 22:29:37 -0700

In Enterprise Manager (SQL 2000), I could not check what
permissions are being granted to the public role. The
system would hang whenever I click on the permission
button. There are more than 8000 objects in this
database. Could this be the cause?