Ya, they're not letting us install anything on the server for byzantian security reasons which don't make anymore sense after they're explained. That means that I can't do the Jet registration on there to use the OleDB and I can't put Excel on there to use the Interop.

Is there any other kind of Excel component which allows reading of the data (no updates or anything are necessary) which is a self-contained thing that can just be shipped with the application in a dll or the like?