Yeah, I figured that 3.6 stuff out a while ago. I also discovered the original app I borrowed the code from almost does the same thing, but there are pseudo-error traps that keep it from erroring out. But the basic behavior is the same (it pops up the hard-coded error message a couple times before letting you kill it).

So anyway. . . . .the options aren't looking too good unless there's some way to get Access to stop dropping the reference on an error message.