Thanx for the help.... I'm getting a different error.... here it is:

Error Type:

Microsoft OLE DB Provider for ODBC Drivers (0x80004005)

[Microsoft][ODBC Microsoft Access Driver]General error Unable to open registry key 'Temporary (volatile) Jet DSN for process 0xda0 Thread 0xa90 DBC 0x10a6004 Jet'.

I'm using MS Access, here is the connection string..... do I need adovbs?

<%Response.buffer = True%>

<%

Set registration = Server.CreateObject("ADODB.Connection")

registration.Open"DRIVER={Microsoft Access Driver (*.mdb)};DBQ=D:\MSP\Database\mspsl.mdb;"

%>