>It worked!!!???
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>(and I would start to think what could I have done for it not to work:)

Hey Cetin ... this sounds exactly like the go-round that you and I had a few days ago with the Trusted Connection differences I was having with .NET 2.0 and 1.1 ... where it worked fine with 1.1 on my machine, but not on yours (until you added the login to SQL Server). I *still* have not figured out what I've got on my machine to make it work with 1.1 and not 2.0.

I hope you do better than me and figure out what this ShellExecute problem is!! <g>

~~Bonnie