--- C:/Documents and Settings/Chris/Adobe ColdFusion Builder workspace/Reactor/reactor/config/config.cfc	Fri Jul 24 13:59:53 2009
+++ C:/Coldfusion/CF8/wwwroot/reactor/config/config.cfc	Sun Sep 20 10:37:29 2009
@@ -110,9 +110,15 @@
 		<cfset var xml = "">
 		
 		<!--- attempt to expand the path to config --->
-		<cfif FileExists( expandPath( arguments.xmlFile ) )>
-			<cfset arguments.xmlFile = expandPath( arguments.xmlFile ) />
-		</cfif>
+		<cftry>
+			<cfif NOT FileExists(arguments.xmlFile)>
+				<cfset arguments.xmlFile = expandPath( arguments.xmlFile ) />
+			</cfif>
+		
+			<cfcatch>
+				<cfset arguments.xmlFile = expandPath( arguments.xmlFile ) />
+			</cfcatch>
+		</cftry>
 
 		<cfif NOT FileExists( arguments.xmlFile )>
 			<cfthrow type="reactor.config.InvalidPathToConfig"