>I had mentioned several weeks ago about animation.vcx that I have included in my .exe that works fine 98% of the time. For example, I had not touched or revised this application for at least a week and today for no reason the "blah blah is not an object" message appears and the app bombs out. It worked flawlessly yesterday and beyond will most likely work tomorrow. But not today. COuld this have something to do with MS updates?

Does it do anything with dates? (Like create a variable, procedure, or filename based on the date? Perhaps it's trying to get a file of a server that you've lost the connection to? Just guessing.....