The C++ guy we employed a couple of days ago had a look at it, could interface to Merlin after a few attempts, but couldn't see any extra properties or methods that vb is unaware of. He claims that this should be the case with ActiveX components.

Have just emailed a guy l know at Microsoft (Oz) who claims to have details regarding Agent 3.0, hopefully that version will resolve your issue. According to him the next verison, if they ever get around to releasing it, will have far more functionality, MS have demonstrated internally but coz a freebee l guess it ain't high priority.