>>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.
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>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...

I understand your feeling perfectly. But Shaw's not too far ahead of the "gummit". Standard is Win95B. We get a new computer from Dell, for example, complete with Win98 or NT or Win2K and the IT department blows the whole setup away, installing everything (network drivers, etc.) from a CD they've burned (we've got licensing agreements to do this, BTW). Sometimes you get some, mmmm, things that don't work quite right. I was an instructor at a training session recently. All the computers in the training room were recent and had MS mice with a mouse wheel. Unfortunately, the wheel didn't work since the proper drivers were long gone. Sigh...