Thank you all for any help you may have been about to send, but I did get a successful build message just now.
I had to copy midl.exe from the visual c++ disks, copy over the oaidl.dll (and other includes)...set up an include path. Set my path to point to the cl.exe and related dll's on the vc7, stuff like that. Anyway...appears like I may be ready to roll...haven't fired up any code yet...thats next.
