Ok I believe that you have found the prob bruce. thanks , but service pack4 for what? I'm running windows XP; office XP (which has Access 2000 attached) so I running Access 2000. Is there a service pack for office?

RobDog: I'll have to check the MDAC

bty I tried the work-around Bruce but I stupid and could'nt get it to connect to mdb either.