I had a look at the bug list (links/bug list) and found that Randy Pearson had already found the bug. Bummer - I thought that I'd finally got in first :)

Cheers,
Jamie


>Hi Jamie,
>
>In the end I was reduced to using the last line above as a basis to determine whether the object actually existed. I would have expected either
>(a) the object to remain instantiated because a reference to it was held in the collection or (b) (and less likely) the collection reference to be .NULLed.
>
>Oh Well, Regards,
>Viv