>John,
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>Would you mind sharing the api call you are using to get the ip address?
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>>Well, I didn't have any controls on the form that called it, but I had forgotten about stealing someone else's code that pulled the ipaddress using whatelse, the winsock control. I've changed the code to use an api call and the problem has gone away!<g> Thanks

Sorry Dave, I mis-spoke. I wrote a program that creates a batch file on the fly, runs via shellexecute and redirects the output of ipconfig to a text file. I just strip the ipaddress from that. It works so far.