Helen

> You are quite right - when I ran the "fixed" project in Delphi 4 it

stored the input value 4598.5813 as 0.2080.

Its a "fun" error isn't it? :)

> Could you just remind me which version of IBO you were using?

3.6.Dg It should be the latest trial version as I downloaded it again
yesterday to see if that was a possible cause of the problem

Thanks again
Peter