You da man!
The install was done in it's own directory (twice, with file compares to check for corruption) Having lived in DOS and Unix for 20 years, I regard NT40 as the first (only) Windoze OS barely stable enough to use for real work. And yes, for whatever reason, the regsvr command made it happy.
Much grass! (for the fix, and the tradition of doing good work for it's own sake!)
--Dave