Sorry if this keeps popping in and out; more stuff comes up and I'm not
quite up to having multiple replies sitting around.

1) For clarification, does the API timer essentially "free" the timer
from
the computer clock?
2) For some bizarre reason, Excel quits without mention seconds
after I stop the countdown.
3) Apparently I don't have vba332.dll. Would that instead be "vba632",
or would a different DLL file work?