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Default Solver gotchas

I apologize for the open-ended question.

I am about to embark on a complicated project where I need to use "solver"
and I am gathering some information before I jump in. BTW, I am Using Excel
2003.

I seem to recall that solver does not work when the objective function
contains an array formula. Can anyone confirm this?

Are there any other similar "gotchas" in solver. I am looking for this kind
of incompatibilities. For instance, does it work if some of the cells
involved contain user-defined VBA functions?

I am not asking about cases where the solver does not converge, takes too
long, or converges to a local (rather than global) peak. I know those are
facts of life in numerical optimization.

Thanks,

Gabriel