>I seem to get a valid return string maybe 1 in 7 or 8 tries if I keep hitting up-arrow, return in the command window. Can't imagine why it would work properly from time to time, but not always.
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Alan,

That makes two of us. I did something similar to what you've done (even added calls to the other methods) with the same results.

I imagine that it may have something to do with the values in the key that's returned. I just wish it would fail once from .NET so that I could get a stack trace.