Andreas I've had an idea (possibly stupid) since keying my previous message. Is is possible that wine is trying to load USER.DLL from /usr/lib/libuser instead of from /usr/lib/wine/libuser.so? If so, how could I prevent that? Thanks -- John Hunt, [Stokesley, N Yorks, UK] e-mail: jrhunt at iee.org URL: http://web.onyxnet.co.uk/Hunt.Family-onyxnet.co.uk/