Hi Dave,
Yes, I can do it myself - write VB apps for a living. I was in the UK (if that's where you are physically located) at the end of January (business), and thought the weather wasn't too bad. Found out later that it was the warmest January in living memory! And then a few days later it snowed.
Yeah, it has been pretty bizarre!
I was glad to get back to Australia.
Not surprised. My brother's there at the moment and loving the hot winter!
Not sure if the Unicode driver will work for non-Unicode databases, but I will give it a go. Viewing Unicode data using the standard driver does result in some weird text, though.
Should be OK, though VB's Unicode is somewhat exaggerated by Microsoft so don't expect the forms to all display the data properly :-(
Regards, Dave.