When i say datepicker i mean the built in access datepicker that appears when you have a textbox set to a date type.

The datepicker just enters the date as text into the text box (8/28/2013 for example).

We like to use a formated version of this (using ISO 8601 standard) for file names and rather than having to use a format(currdate,"YYYY-MM-DD) command every time we need to reference it.

We have the field with the controlsource set to the format of the date so we can just reference that text box.

I have however noticed somthing strange, when our users login very briefly a window appears titles somthing to similar to "Searching dao36.dll" so i am putting an educated guess that certain dll files are not present and or correctly registered on the system.

We have had similar things happen for our clients that use a different version of our system that needs a custom dll to be registered and that dll is not present. It screws up the dates amongst other things when the referenced dll is missing.

So will see if i can investigate that further.