The problem is that "someobject" renders using the acquisition path of the FOLDER that contains "main" I want the "someobject" to use the acquisition path of the "main" DTML object rather than the one of it's folder.

Hi Gilles, Unfortunately, I can't offer any advice--I'm having the same problem. Tell me if I'm generalizing the problem correctly with this question: How do you reference an object -other- than the one that currently has "context"? In my case, I'm trying to build a navigation tree that -always- starts with the root folder, even when I'm two or three levels deep... I tried expressing the root folder as the oldest object in the PARENTS list, but my script doesn't appear to perceive it as an object... Cheers, Harrison