Thank you for taking the time to decipher, hippo! after posting it and reading haj's response, I realized my post was a bit confusing, so I apologize. I guess the point I want to emphasize is that my production script works fine through the debugger. This has happened to me before and it has always stemmed from library issues getting loaded during a debug session, but not production. I'll keep looking for differences between my prod & test script...