>But then any calls against this reference don't work.

There's an understatment. From the command window, I get a C5 in VFP8 when I type objectname(period) to bring up IntelliSense. I'll fiddle with it this weekend. And why do you think it should return an IUnknown pointer? I would think it would give me a pointer to the default interface of the new task.

And to save me from surfing for the docs, got a link to where you got this info?