RE: Very vague error message

I have never come across this in a ColdFusion.One way you can try to pinpoint the error is to place cfabort statement at say, line 50. Run your code and if you don't get an error, place the cfabort on line 100 and run the code.Keep doing this until you get closer to the error. Do you have any

CFC's behaving strangely on my machine

For some reason, unnamed scoped variables within CFCs appear to not work. Code below: Salary.cfc cfcomponent cfset acfc = My CFC cffunction name=test output=Yes #variables.acfc# /cffunction /cfcomponent and my call to Salary.cfc cfset c = CreateObject('component', 'Salary')