> And I still fail to see what you think a corrupt page problem has
> got to do
> with "connecting"...
>
> ./heLen
>

connection strings...
he mentioned a desktop application - then an IIS/ODBC application. This may
lead to a client library mismatch. You can pick up and old dev IIS platform
and have an old client lib in the system32 dir. It may never have a recent
full install on it.

Alan