>I know you mentioned that this was a Win95 machine, any chance of it being OSR1? I'm wondering if an upgrade might be the solution. I'd also take a look at the SHELL32.DLL. That's the dll where the icon related features that seem to be having a problem live.

Hey George, been away a few days. This is 95 OSR1 all right. Our LAN never got around to upgrading, which has caused a few inconveniences, but I've never seen this problem (we were supposed to move to NT about 2 years ago, but it still has huge problems, so we'll be on 95, primarily, for the foreseeable future). But I will leave this problem to the proper admin folks, it's really out of my jurisdiction to fiddle with, I don't even have admin rights there...