Ah, ok I see that now. I've got 3 people on win98 all having the same problem now, and some people on here said it was a netbios limitation.. that seemed likely with the first 2 users (one has a 19char username, the other 20char) but the 3rd is a short one. so i figured i'd try the other suggestion from sealeapord - which was to double up the $ (i'm assuming that $ is some reserved item in kix and needs to be escaped or something)

it's just odd that these 3 people can't get it and the rest are fine..