What gets displayed when you run this:

code:

---

break on

$agent_control = "agent.control.2"

$agent = olecreateobject ( "$agent_control" )

?"agent   = $agent"
?"error   = @error"
?"message = @serror"
?
$= olereleaseobject ( $agent )

exit

---

on your Win98 machine ?

Shawn.