Thanks for the tweaked code, it worked on my desktop. The acid test will be when I put it on one of the "virgin" PC's ( no python installed, just running the py2exe executable ) that run the machine. I won't be getting one of those until later in the week, but I'm hoping that since it cleared the problem here, it will also clear the problem on that machine, ( the error message was slightly different ), so once again thanks again. Greg
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