Just like to say thankyou to all who helped on this, especially Andy Kunz and Dave McLaughlin. Finally got the bloody thing working. The problem? Well, mostly it was a Friday afternoon problem :o) Just got in today and spotted a mistake in my master code (VB5 at the moment). As always, a valuable lesson learned, don't assume *any* part of your project is working properly when debugging! Regards Mike Rigby-Jones