I am working my way through chapter 5, using an Access 2000 database and when I try to connect to an Access database I get the error. I tried the ProjectTimeTracker.mdb, Northwind.mdb and several of my own files that worked previously,

I just got this machine and reinstalled Access and VB 2005Express. I have checked other postings and Microsoft's knowledge base to no avail.

I can view the files fine within Access and my guess this is something simple, but I can't figure out what

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