>1. 99% of the ADSI examples from MS (and their WROX cronies etc) are in VB/script.

That may be true, but there are at least six ADSI examples in the MSFT KB that are written in VFP. In addition, I believe they cover just about ever aspect of ADSI that VB Script would be able to get to (IOW, all of the IDispatch stuff). Take a look at the ADSI browser sample, it's an extraordinary piece of work (*cough*).