Outlook Automation Error

[www2004]

I am running WinXP Professional SP1, Outlook 2002 (I have installed all critical windows updates). I've run this code a million times before, no problem. Recently I've been getting a 'Choose Profile' dialog and a Windows Script Host error when running the code in vbs. This only happens if there is no Outlook running at all. If Outlook is running, I do not get an error. This happens regardless of number of profiles setup, or if any of these profiles is the default or not. The first time it runs, I get the login dialog and the error, but an Outlook object is created, as I can see it in Task Manager. I run the code again, and this time no error since Outlook has been instantiated. Has anyone come across this problem? Any suggestions?

The error is:

Code: 80010108
Error: The object invoked has disconnected from its clients.


The code is:

Set oOL = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set oOL = Nothing

 

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[www2004]

I have the exact same configuration on another machine. I do not have this problem on that machine.

On the machine with error, I've even tried this script:

Set oOL = CreateObject("Outlook.Application")
Set nsMAPI = oOL.GetNameSpace("MAPI")
nsMAPI.logon "Outlook", "", False, False
Set oOL = Nothing
msgbox "done"

Where "Outlook" is a valid profile on the machine. Same error. Under these conditions, how do I ever start Outlook programatically????