tempdb..syscolumns growing in size without obvious reason

Hi all, Does anybody have ever seen tempdb..syscolumns table growing in size while maintaining ~300 entries? [code="sql"]select cast(object_name(id) as varchar(10)) as name,status,dpages,reserved,used,rowcnt from sysindexeswhere object_name(id) = 'syscolumns'[/code]name| status| dpages| reserved| used| rowcnt|---------- ----------- ----------- -----------syscolumns| 16402| 403334| 631854| 594834| 35593|syscolumns| 2 | 188710| 80561| 78437| 75|[code="sql"]select count(*) from [dbo].[syscolumns][/code]-----------278 [code="sql"]DBCC SHOWCONTIG (syscolumns)[/code]-----------DBCC SHOWCONTIG scanning 'syscolumns' table...Table: 'syscolumns' (3); index ID: 1, database ID: 2TABLE level scan performed.- Pages Scanned................................: 397609- Extents Scanned..............................: 55244- Extent Switches..............................: 224894- Avg. Pages per Extent........................: 7.2- Scan Density [Best Count:Actual Count].......: 22.10% [49702:224895]- Logical Scan Fragmentation ..................: 26.88%- Extent Scan Fragmentation ...................: 30.11%- Avg. Bytes Free per Page.....................: 4048.6- Avg. Page Density (full).....................: 49.98%The table is growing with approx speed 1GB/hourThis is happening on SQL 2000 Ent (8.00.2066)Any help or advise is very appreciated!