This has me really stumped.

The program runs fine in design mode.  Crashes with the exe.  It appears to
be happening around some GetPrivateProfileString calls... (I could be wrong
though)

Funny thing is, I compiled an exe that was installed on a client machine
last week and everything ran fine.  This week the problem started
occurring.  I have only added one new form to the project, but I have not
changed the database or the ini file at all.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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A. Yoakum

For what it is worth I did an inquiry during design mode (pause, immediate
window, "error 321") and received the following message:

Run-time error
Invalid file format

I'm running VB5.0, SP3, Win95

Eric

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This kind of problem is often causes by a related dll to one of the control
you use.

Make sure that all the dll used by the controls are up to date on all
client machines.
Then, make sure that this ocx is properly register with regsvr.

It would also be helpful to know when you get this error...put some
messagebox to see if it is during the form load.
If it`s in the form load, it is sure that the cause is a control.  You
would then have to delete the oca file of the ocx and redo the reference to
this control in vb in order to create
the proper oca.  Then, make sure that this ocx is properly register with
regsvr.

It could be the platform your running the GetPrivateProfileSting calls from,
maybe.

There is a difference in declarations of the API between the 16 bit and
Win95.  Therefore, if you run your 16 bit app on a 95 box, then the
declaration is syntactically incorrect to import the win32 version.

If'n this is the case, then you'd just need to add declarations for both in
conditional compile branches in the general declarations section like this.
. .

#If Win32 Then
    'paste win32 API import declarations here
#Else
    'paste 16 bit version here
#End If

:) smiles