FWIW... even if you had a copy of FP it wouldn't help here.

I hear what your saying about going around my backside to get to my elbow. In this scenario, the direct route to said elbow is via code built into the FP98 extensions which you can't see, can't get to, and can't change. So my choices were to either re-create my message board outside of FP (which I'll probably do eventually... just not now) or use some server side script to do what the FP extensions wont.

You still game to take a look at my VBScript (get to elbow via alternate route) code & see if you can help me get it right?