Ya got me on that one. I don't have a server running W2k handy to help troubleshoot, but it sounds like it might be a problem the software is having calling one of the perl modules (since POD doesn't use TCP, but the modules it does use does, if that's clear?).

Make sure you have the latest confirmed working versions of the perl modules the script requires installed on W2k and maybe even look around to see whether it's a known issue with that module.

John