I have an app that uses Office Automation and that until several weeks ago
worked fine on my desktop and on my laptop. Now it works fine on my laptop,
but on my desktop it crashes.

The app has an open XL workbook and when I attempt to execute the line
oxlWks.Application.ActiveWorkbook.SaveAs fileName:=fname,
FileFormat:=xlNormal
it gives me an error. Either the error is "the server threw an exception"
or "Method SaveAs failed" . Part of the problem is that this XL workbook is
created by a 3rd-party ActiveX component that is quite old and so it creates
the workbook in Excel 5.0 format. So I use SaveAs rather than Save so that
I can overwrite the file with the current Office 2000 format.

I should point out that the latest variant of the CoolWebSearch trojan has
invaded my system and using standard tools (AdAware, Spybot, HijackThis,
CWshredder) have not fixed the problem. So that might be the cause, or it
could be something else.

My Desktop and Laptop both have the same version of Office though the laptop
uses WinNt and the Desktop WinXP.

I cannot delete the copy of the workbook on my HD and then do the SaveAs,
because I opened that file to begin with (it is the same file that I am
working with). I could save this file with the correct fmt and
a temporary name then delete the original file and rename this one, but that
strikes me as an inelegant solution.

So, what other options do I have? There appears to be no way to use the
Save command and at the same time to specify changing the fileformat from Xl
5.0 to the current version. SaveAs bombs out and there are lots of threads
in the Google archives about this, but no solution that seems to make sense
to me (other than try early binding rather than late binding). Does anyone
else have an idea about what might be causing this and how I can fix it?

<end of rambling post
Thanks.
CA