Hi!
This will work:
o=createobject("DAO.DBEngine.35")
or
o=createobject("DAO.DBEngine.36")
depending on DAO versions installed.

>Can someone please tell me why the following is failing?
>
>o=createobject("DAO.DBEngine")
>I have tried to register w/regsvr32 dao3032.dll and get a fail, since I have Access97 installed and it probably is already registered.
>
>Using the object browser on dao2535.tlb I get dbengine is a member of DAO.