as you can see from my previous post, I think I have done exactly that. That's what is so frustrating. I've read and research all the possible info there is on how to set up variables and parameters ( I will need this - this is where I’m ultimately heading – wanting to use the variable that was populated by the script – as a parameter to my OLEDB source connection ), but for some reason i cannot get it right.

I've just battled with it for so long, that I’m very frustrated; perhaps that's why I sound serious.