Well ite seems that the approach I listed in the previous email succeeds in creating an unbroken Schedule object in the root folder. However it suffers from a severe drawback: Still have the same error. Possibly because Z2.pid is no longer owned by nobody. I think I will trash Xron and see what I can come up with. AM -- ================================================================== Aseem Mohanty Neurobehavioral Systems Inc, 828 San Pablo Ave, Albany, CA 94706 (R) 510 7696011 (M) 510 3014871 (O) 510 5279231 ================================================================== "I saw `cout' being shifted "Hello world" times to the left and stopped right there!!" -- Steve Gonedes ==================================================================