OMG. So obvious. Thanks.

For the benefit of other newbies - that otherwise very useful article tells you to set up some variables like

Those variables need to...

One of them is a hosted / cloud domain and I don't think we have that degree of 'trust' between the two - generally they need to be separate. So...

That's got me up and running!

many thanks

I can't get at the original code at present but yes, the problem is exactly that: the second set of instructions receives message "cannot create table #TEMP" because it already...

Not too many helpful suggestions then!

Here's an update in case anyone else has this problem and finds this thread.

Simple answer - the o/s is XP Home Edition, and it won't...