My main PC is XP Pro with Office XP, my other ir XP home with Office 97. The Access 97 db's are locking out and the XP db is the one that is fussy about being on a network drive. The Home/97 has some dual installs of certain office apps, but this has not been a problem in the past (well, at least not in this case... virtual PC's are much better for legacy support I hope).