>What I meant is maybe the .class needs to find the key in a path such as "c:\inetpub\wwwroot\classes" instead of a virtual web directory such as "./classes". Again, this is just a theory.

Ahhhh, I'll have to try that.

>Have you tried coding it in HTML instead of the FP assistants, or even better, in Notepad so that FP won't manipulate the source at all. It might add something the class doesn't like.

Oh yes, been there done that. Also, I take back beating up on the manufacturer. The guys at CodeBrain.com have been great trying to help me, and they really do have some very well done java applets. But it's something flaky in my roxworld FP98 project that's conflicting I guess. For some reason it just won't find the .key file unless I make the htm file where the java applet is coded a separate project.