>>Is it possible to automatically detect whether a user's system has a particular ODBC data source set up, and if not, then to automatically/programmatically set up the ODBC data source on the user's machine? If this is possible, how would I go about implementing it?
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>Did you look at SQLConfigDataSource in odbccp32.dll (description in odbcjet.hlp)

This is on my list. Thanks Edward.