Jochem's tersely abbreviated post at first seemed to read as if the solution was to ENABLE Global Script Protection (which didn't make sense), but James you made me realize that he meant to point me in that general direction and that the real solution was to NOT ENABLE Global Script Protection. My hosting provider implemented the change and everything is fine again.
Take-home lesson: if you ever find your EMBED and OBJECT tags getting mysteriously converted to InvalidTag in a CFFILE WRITE operation, disable Global Script Protection in the CF Administrator. Now if we could just get this houseoffusion.com forum to actually record posts the first time instead of nothing nothing nothing and then suddenly three copies of the same thing appear... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;160198600;22374440;w Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:299053 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4