This is wonderful news.
Now that there IS an alternative available for XP supplied by MS!
I wasn't aware of this!
It will not work on 9x or NT (haven't tried it on 2k yet) as the wiaaut.dll requires the gdiplus.dll, which is fine because it is located at the second link supplied by strongm, and according to MS, both are fully distributable if used in a application, however, the wiaaut.dll ALSO requires a different version of the OLE32.Dll, which happens to have a missing missing export function, causing an Unresolved parent import.
Too bad, but as I say, great that there is a solution for XP and I guess I will be off to creating a activeX dll using this tool just for XP, and then using the one needed based on the operating system.
Still saves me about $600 for an alternative!
Thanks!