Les,
I was thinking about commenting on it being the @ERROR, but I really don't know. I've never heard of a "REG_NONE" key, so it sounds to me like this is KIXtart's way of telling you the value doesn't exist. Is this documented anywhere? The READTYPE function says "REG_NONE" is a possible date type returned, but it doesn't specify that this is returned if there is no value.

Brian