If I may piggy back onto this thread.

I have the same situation. I am not real experienced w/SQL Server- but I am it- so I'd like to...

I don't know- I am going to take a hard look at it next week. I doubt it is MDAC because it is my main development machine and is...

What a strange thing. (just to update in case anyone else looks at this thread).

My problem seems to be related to the machine running the programs. ...

I did use sp_who and the number of connections that I was seeing were correct.

I kept hammering away at this yesterday and I believe I found the problem....