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I have four copies of 'win32ole.so' on my system. The 'watir' versions are different than the 'ruby' versions. ak@IPON ~> ls -l /lib/ruby/1.8/i386-cygwin/win32ole.so -rwxr-x---+ 1 ak Users 64000 Sep 30 06:25 /lib/ruby/1.8/i386-cygwin/win32ole.so* ak@IPON ~> ls -l /lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/watir/win32ole/win32ole.so -rwxrwxrwx 1 ak Users 65622 Jan 29 14:24 /lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/watir/win32ole/win32ole.so* ak@IPON ~> ls -l /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-cygwin/win32ole.so -rwxr-x---+ 1 ak Users 64000 Sep 30 06:25 /usr/lib/ruby/1.8/i386-cygwin/win32ole.so* ak@IPON ~> ls -l /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/watir/win32ole/win32ole.so -rwxrwxrwx 1 ak Users 65622 Jan 29 14:24 /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/watir/win32ole/win32ole.so* I tried to copy the 'ruby' version into the 'watir' directories, to see if that would make a difference. When I re-ran the IRB test, here is the error message I got... ak@IPON ~/watir> irb >> require 'watir' => true >> x = Watir::IE.new RuntimeError: LoadLibrary: \usr\lib\ruby\gems\1.8\gems\watir-1.6.2\lib\watir\IEDialog\Release\IEDialog.dll from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/watir/win32.rb:6:in `initialize' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/watir/win32.rb:6:in `new' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/watir/win32.rb:6 from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `gem_original_require' from /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/rubygems/custom_require.rb:31:in `require' from /usr/lib/ruby/gems/1.8/gems/watir-1.6.2/lib/watir/ie.rb:70 from (irb):2 >>

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