you guys (james, tracer) are so very kind to take this on! i appreciate the help. i hope the discussion between the two of you continues until there is a working method of doing this. i'll help in any way i can but like i said, i am a newb with the api calls. i hope one or both of you will keep at it! thanks a million. i think once this works, we should add this to the code archive as a way to access the pointers to program processes.
best,
mike
best,
mike