I wanted to thank you for your help. Here is a copy of a post made above so you know what happened: Thanks I see where my problem is. It is the fact that I kept misreading everyones advice I thought everyone was trying to tell me to insert it into the buffer I was creating, and didn't think anyone knew I was reading it in. My fault... See what 6-8 months away does to a C++ programmer when programminging VB! :|