I'd highly recommend looking into . NET 4 and the Task Parallel Library (also available in . NET 3.5sp1 via the Rx Framework).
My recommendation would be to not do it. You didn't write that code to be used in parallel, so it's not going to work, and it's going to fail in ways that will be difficult to debug.
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