ok, but my site is hosted on shared hosting space, won't this prohibit me running processes such as this? I'm afraid I'm a newby as regards vbs applications and client side scripts. My asp knowledge only stretches into its implementation on web pages as server side scripting.

I've also just discoved that I have a problem reading the .csv file on the product suppliers site using the asp fso object. I think it is something to do with permisions at their end, but I can't speak to anybody there until monday.

All a bit belly up really, but thanks.