The problem is something with my system not a code copying issue, i use ie and the first thing i did when it failed was make sure there were not any any spacing issues, remove the $&'s and remove the periods from the comopen/comclose so i could see where it was going. It's definately some bigger issue on my system because its not restricted to just this code or the examples in the help file. It is probable there is some issue with the windows scripting engine not functioning correctly even when enabled that i am not sure how to fix.
