sorry grasshopper for some reason its still changing all the nic's, and i'm still having the same problem with regards to the wins addresses themselves, trying to put two wins addresses in results in the second wins address being corrupted somehow, it simply doesnt understand what we're trying to do and comes up with the first ip address then a load of starnge characters, like those found in a html email sent as text. not sure where i go from here, i think i'll have to check the knowledgebase and see if theres anything in there with regards to this problem, oh and sorry for the lack of proper punctuation.....

Anth