PCWorks: RPC Stub incompatible version in IE 5.50

[Virginia Da Costa]

On Thu, 29 May 2003 18:45:57 +0100 the following posting from me appeared in
PCWorks.
So far no-one has replied, but I'm hoping some of you gurus will take at
look at my problem once again and see if you can give me some help. I'm sure
Gerry and others might have an aswer!

Subject: PCWorks: RPC stub incompatibile version in IE 5.5

I can suddenly neither print nor use Ctr-F in IE 5.50 (on Win98). Error
message talks of incompatible version of RPC stub - Error 48 in the case of
Ctrl-Find, and when I try to print from a web page, I get a scripting error!
There are many references to this on Google - mostly in connection with
Win2K or above, most mentioning error 34 or 35! The most thorough info I
could find was here:
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/Browser_Issues/Q_20352704.html
and
http://www.experts-exchange.com/Operating_Systems/Win98/Q_20321481.html

[quote]
The error incompatible version of the RPC stub happens because a program you
installed, installed another version of OLEAUT32.dll in your windows system
directory.just over write it with a copy off your windows cd and that will
fix it.but you will have to do it through dos.
and ...
"I think you maybe restore an incorrect version of  oleaut32.dll. Try to
restore it from your Microsoft Office installation CD-ROM under MS-DOS.
[unquote]

I did this, but to no avail. Then I followed this advice:

[quote]
"1- "Error: 35 Incompatible Version of the RPC Stub" when doing a ctrl-F
(Find on this Page)
2- The '"Open in New Window" makes a blank page' problem discussed in this
thread.
Both of these problems were fixed when I installed an older version of
oleaut32.dll
It might be easiest for novice users to download and run this patch which
overwrites the faulty dll.  That way, you needn't bother with switching to
DOS mode, etc.
http://download.microsoft.com/download/msninvestor/Patch/1.0/WIN98/EN-US/mcr
epair.EXE " [unquote]

Again, no success!

I do NOT wish to upgrade to IE 6, and according to the thread in the above
URL, that would not necessarily solve the problem.

Have any of you got any other suggestions? Not being able to use Ctrl-F or
print a web page is MOST annoying to say the least. I can't imagine that
reinstalling the OS will help, and I'm really not keen on doing a reformat
and starting all over again.

Thanks everyone for your input.
Any and all help will be much appreciated.

Virginia Da Costa
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