Any ideas? I'd really like to get this project completed before the New Year. Fortunately I'm thinking it's about 90% complete at the moment, but this problem with the sockets (while not technically important), would really save a lot of hassle, since I could set the main dialog to ignore the names that don't return a valid entry, rather than have the script try to look up the information every time (which, when complete, will be close to, if not, a daily basis)