First off: Can someone at least respond and say hi - so I know that this things is working

OK, so I have messed around with my DCOMCNFG. Instead of a timeout error now I get ....

The call to Server.CreateObject failed while checking permissions. Access is denied to this object.

I have done this a thousand times with other MS Office object models. Seriously in need of some assistance as things seem to be getting worse not better.

Indeed someone out there must own a copy of MapPoint and done development with it. Not interested in anything fancy - just want to spit out a map.

A little help on security and a 'hello world' ( you get the idea ), is all I need. I am running MP2004 on Win2K03, etc.

Can't believe this needs to be so difficult. All I want to do is see a map - anything!