Thanks everyone for the speedy response, it seems that attempting to install the oracle ODBC driver when you don't have oracle is the problem - just a little warning to anyone else out there as dense as myself. Regards Dan _______________________________________________________________________ List hosting provided by Directions Magazine | www.directionsmag.com | To unsubscribe, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and put "unsubscribe MapInfo-L" in the message body.