Thanks.

I shall bear what you have said in mind and update this posting if I get further problems.

Regards,

John M.

What does Office use MDAC for?

If I remember correctly, I had just installed Office SP2 but it is entirely possible that I had forgotten to reboot before proceeding with SQL...

Steve,

Funnily enough I got the message: -

MDAC failed to install

Do you think there are MDAC components in Windows 2000 that might have caused this