RESOLVED!

unbelievable. the issues turned out to be the Oracle ODBC driver that we were using as the Data Source. I updated the ODBC driver with the latest drivers from Oracle...

thanks, i'll take a look and try those things.

your second link describes the problem, but i am not doing any custom coding.

can you elaborate?

i am running the following:

msmdarch /a servername "e:\program files\Microsoft Analysis Services\Data\" "dbname" "e:\dbname.CAB"