Thanks for the help. I didn't notice the web browser being in the background until after I started this thread and then did some more experimenting with the getURL action.

My next question is how exactly do I work around this bug with a 3rd party app? I am already utilizing ftools to help me open pdf's in acrobat from the projector file (they work great!). Can ftools be used to help me out here? If so, how? The web browser maybe doesn't seem quite so difficult, but the mailto seems a bit harder, since I am using it to auto-fill in an email message with:

"mailto:[email protected]?subject="add subject add "&body=" add

How do I use a 3rd party app AND have this functionality? I would really like to have this thing run under the larger gamut of Windows flavors (9x, ME, 2k) without problems, as I am not totally sure of the distribution target of the disc.

Thanks for any help you can give me, even if it is just to say "No, that will never work."