Thanks for all the help so far...I have some updates:

The Order Designer error was something to do with my specific workstation and my default printer. No idea what it is but if I select another default printer I can now edit specifications. I'll leave that one alone for now as I'm fine with my workaround.

the ODBC one is a bit more troublesome. I found two older versions of ADS32.DLL. When I tried replacing the file with each of them the same set of problems occurred:

1.) ODBC will not give the error, but it prompts me for a U/P which I cannot give a correct answer to. It then cancels the operation
2.) No other module is able to access Lanpak. It says Invalid sign in or something similar.

Any other ideas?