>>I don't think that you can (easily) get an object reference to an already running instance of IE5.
>
>oSHell = CREATEOBJECT("Shell.Application")
>* Shell.Windows contains a collection of all IE and Explorer objects...

>FOR EACH oWindow IN oShell.Windows
>  IF oWindow.LocationURL = "http://"
>    * oWindow is a reference to a running IE object
>  ENDIF
>ENDFOR

Hi Erik,
On computers running Win95 or NT4, the shell objects are available only if the integrated desktop is installed. Version 4.71 of the shell is on all Win98 computers, and version 5.00 is on all Win2K computers.

I'm using NT4 without the "integrated desktop installed" - so I couldn't instantiate oShell! It took me a while to find the snippet above, so I guess my (easily) was not entirely incorrect.
Regards,
Houston.