yeah Bill did something with the professional edition that
makes it highly gay.

A friend of mine passed me his code to test after
spending hours of troubleshooting the same problem. I found
that it compiled successfully under my VB but on his
computer, he wasn't able to compile the program and even
with the compiled version (that ran fine on my computer)
woulnd't run on his. What the program did was shell an
instance of MSWord. We were both running win2k and vb6.

Are you running Win2k? Maybe it's not professional and
it's something that Win2k installed.