Hey all.



I want to install Oracle's latest OLE DB driver (OraOLEDB_81710.exe) for 

its good support of the CLOB data type specifically. However upon running 

the driver setup I'm told that it can't be installed over version 7 & 8 

required support files. Trouble is when I fire up the Oracle installer, 

the version 8 required support files uninstall ok, but I get the following 

error when trying to remove the version 7 required support files :



"It was not possible to find a value for rdbms73 in $Oracle...Please 

restore the bindings for rdbms73 by adding a line that begins 

with 'rdbms73=c:\orant'"



Huh?



This is all being done on Win2k/IIS5/Oracle 8. 



Any help greatly appreciated.