I'll leave the ActiveX question for the computer guru's - I do recall that if you use pandadx8 I was told that tells your computer to use an older version of DirectX (version 8) - This was suggested to me because, although my processor meets the requirements, their server doesn't recognize it... Just wanted to let the guru's know.... also, they are closing for maintenience in a bit - hope they don't undo what I just did!!!!