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My first post and it’s a vanity! LOL! Anyways I have a serious question I need some advice on. I am assisting in developing a web application (i.e. I am hiring somebody to write the app). It is replacing a current application that uses Notetab Lite. Notetab using scripts allows a user to search for .tiff and .doc files that have been scanned into certain folders. The user double clicks on the .tiff file and a tiff viewer (Black Ice) comes up with the image (scanned black and white forms duplex). The "Server" is usually a Windows XP Pro workstation...