>Another SWAG, based on John's message:

I missed that message. Do you have the message ID?

>If IIS is pooling VFPOLEDB connections, is there some way you could turn that off, for test purposes?

This is the part that I really don't know much about. But, I didn't spend too much of thinking on it because the pooling mechanism is specific to Windows Server 2003 and I was able to simulate that on Windows Server 2000 and on Windows XP Pro.