>Hey John,
>Long time no hear from. Oh, yes. i think so. right now, she logs on the mainframe and runs a query based off a date or something like that and it ftps the file to her hard drive....

Oh, not so sure about the query part that runs up there, but I think I have some code laying around here somewhere for FTP'ing files down. I can look that up for you when I get a chance here. You could also try an emulator that you could use as a COM server (HyperAccess and Reflection come to mind).
John