Kevin,
I just stumbeled over your post and this here website around the same time this morning.
http://www.catalyst.com/download/freeware.html

Might provide some more examples or inshight to you current research.

Einar

>Thanks Nick. I just found a VB example of multiple connections
>in a chat example:
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>http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.Asp?ID=137
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>Really nice!
>
>
>Disclaimer:
>Author reserves the right to post more stupid questions.
>
>:)
>
>Thanks