>Unfortunately, that didn't do it. I still get "File access is denied..." when building the .DLL in VFP.

That's strange.

The IISRESET /RESTART approach usually shuts it down completely. When you did it, did you see the confirmation, from the command prompt, of the success of that operation?

Also, are you on Win2k? On other platform, you may have a problem trying to succeed with that command?