The code works, and it's clear that the $database used by the subsequent code indeed is connected to Source Safe, so it's not finding a stray global.

Is it possible that $database is a stray global that also happens to be connected to Source Safe?

P.S. This was post 500. I was going to save it for something somehow more profound but I didn't.

-sauoq
"My two cents aren't worth a dime.";