>I like Rick's registry class http://www.berezniker.com/files/registry.zip better.

Thanks a lot Sergey, I will check it out. currently I have implemented the scripting tool and hope it will hold up enough to get the job done.

loHost = CREATEOBJECT("WScript.Shell")
loHost.RegDelete("HKLM\SOFTWARE\myhive\mykey")
loHost.RegDelete("HKLM\SOFTWARE\myhive\")