Dear Roger,

Here are some hints to enable you to troubleshoot this.

- The AIMBIND error occurs typically because of an existing Dynaview dictionary in the \ASP\DATADICT directory being either corrupted or old. For example, I have heard of OE dictionaries being invalid.

- When you run the Initialize function in Quik Link, these dictionaries in \ASP\DATADICT are read and converted to new files, which are copied to the data directory. You will see these files containing '@' characters in the file name (for example, ICITEM@@.dat). There will also be some other files created, with file names of 8 '@' characters.

- It is those created files above that are listed when you attempt to create a new link in Quik Link. Should those files have not been created successfully, that would explain why you don't see anything displayed.

Therefore, you have to be able to run Initialize against your data directory (with no errors) and get those files with '@' in their names to be created to run Quik Link.

Some things to try:
- When you Initialize the data, you can change the settings. Click that button, and in the Application drop-down field, choose 'ic' instead of '??'. This will only bind the IC dictionaries instead of all of them.
- You may have to first remove/delete all of the files in your data directory that have the format of *@.* so that the Initialize function can be preformed 'fresh'.
- You may have to remove some of the files in the \ASP\DATADICT directory to enable the process to work correct. For example, since a couple of OE dictionaries are known to have problems, you may have to remove all the files in this directory that start with 'oe'.

I was able to get my IC dictionaries to initialize as expected with Quik Link and IC6.5A on Office 2000. It will work; we probably just haven't found the specific piece of the puzzle yet.

Take care,