Do you have 2 versions of Crystal Reports installed? If so, you may actually be instanciating version 8 of the RDC and not version 9.

If this is the case try instanciating the RDC like this:

Createobject("CrystalRuntime.Application.9")

>I'm trying to get an idea why a report works in the IDE of Crystal 9 but fails when I use RDC in VFP 8. If you have CR 9, what level did you get, Developer, Enterprise or ? ?
>Could it possible I have a bad CD that is installing an invalid object?
>
>Thank you for your responses,
>
>Tracy