Well we are a Lotus Notes shop, and it's already set up to use SMTP.  The strange thing is that when I opened Outlook, BLAM!!!! I got 86 e-mails sent...

Just found my problem, the parenthesis below. If anyone has a better approach to the problem still I'm up for suggestions. 

Function TransFailureMain()
   DTSDestination("J2_CHANGEDATE") = "1753/01/01"
   TransFailureMain() = DTSTransformStat_OK
End...

David.. Thanks that should work for me in this case.

But is there a way to trap the error for perhaps another case? I know Yukon is supposed to have...