>>Thanks. I guess for me, with respect to the notion "What path do we take?", I'd have to think long and hard here. If all my users had W95/98 'puters I'd probably go the VFP route. If all had W2K loaded I'd be a lot more tempted to go the WSH route.
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>>A commercial product like Rick's would probably cause me to go the way he seems to have gone; that is, do everything in VFP if at all possible.
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>>It's a maintenance issue in my mind and I'd rather support one product rather than multiple unless I had local, absolute control.
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>I've begun to adopt the philosophy of "Distribute Everything". My setup puts the WSH, Foxtools, and MSXML redistributable on every machine. Even if I don't need them. The way I see it, if I start to build this infrastructure now, all of these tools are available to me on these machines without worry in the future when I DO need them.

As long as you do this with each new revision/patch that comes out for all of these disparate pieces, it should work. It's still just DLL Hell, IMHO.