Since SP4 we had the MSGRAPH in ocx file format.
Why don´t you try it, I believe that is more useful then the other. You will give the ability to work with properties/methods, and manipulate it like an usual object.
CLAUDIO
"Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, Ephesians 3:20