That worked! !

There's a couple of strange anomolies:

- Date field now says "Friday, February 13, 2004"
- "dt_update," and "dt_create" fields show nothing but zeros

anyhow, at least NOW the ads post to MySQL (yippie!)
(whatever's causing those other bugs, that's a different chapter...)

Many thanks for all your help CountZero! :-)

-Bob