>Cindy,
>The problem is you don't have the COM classes Lotus developed specifically for this. Notes.NotesSession and Notes.NotesUIWorkspace are older COM classes tied to the Notes UI executables. Lotus.NotesSession was developed so developers could access the Notes engine without the limitations you listed below.
>
>Unless you can get those classes installed, what you want can't be done. Do you have access to the R5 client? Try installing that and see if you get the newer COM classes.

Thanks Larry. Maybe some of the people in the Notes forums at IBM can help me. I installed "the latest" (Notes R6) but it appears I've missed something along the way.