EDIT: The message "A download link was send to the email address you specified. Friend mailed! " appears although no email arrives - is it necessary for the hamsters to warm up before dispatching the email?

Excellent, thank you, that was the solution. I also had to make sure I was running command prompt as administrator before I did regsvr32.tautology wrote:You'll probably get the missing control error on a 64-bit operating system - you need to get old of the .ocx, copy it into c:\windows\syswow64 and register it using regsvr32.