>>It looks like using the setup wizard solved this problem. I hated the >install on every machine but it should be done only one time. > >The .dll file must reside on on every machine running the .exe, not in the >same directory of the .exe The story went (in previous versions of Fox) that if there was an executable, .app or any part of it which was commonly loaded from a network drive and assumed as sharable, lots of problems vanished when these files were marked as read_only. Might help this time too.