>> Which version of CR are you using ? <<

I am using version 8 dev ed with the RDC ( which is pretty cool by the way...thanks for one of your previous message related to that (or Craig).

The runtime.hlp has a section on required dlls. I followed the dlls required for the Report Designer Component.

In winsystemdir

CRAXDRT.DLL && RDC REGSVR32 CRAXDRT.DLL SUCCESS
CRVIEWER.DLL && Viewer REGSVR32 CRVIEWER.DLL SUCCESS
SSCSDK80.DLL && Charting
PG32CONV.DLL && Aux Charting
CRPRAIG80.DLL && Text object
MFC42 && MFC Shared Library
MSVCRT.DLL && C Runtime

I did not include implode, as it indicates this is for reports prior to v8.

In windowsdir\crystal, I include:

P2BXBSE.DLL && xbase dll
P2SMON.DLL && For ADO,RDO,DAO I included it anyway

I did not include CDO32.DLL which is the cyrstal data object?

Just for testing, I copied all of the export destination files U2D*.* and all of the export formats U2F*.* into the windowsdir\crystal as well.

I did not copy any of the files related to the Crystal Reports Automation Server, CPEAUT32.DLL or the ActiveX control, CRYSTL32.OCX.

I did review a previous post you had regarding what you guys copy, but since I am not using the OCX, I excluded the files.