I have following the instructions but when I update the topic.asp page and view a message, it only shows one message and the next one is an error message: Microsoft VBScript runtime error '800a000d' Type mismatch: '[string: ""]' /inc_func_common.asp, line 624 This line takes me to case "dmmy" chkDate = Mid(fDate,7,2) & " " & _ Monthname(Mid(fDate,5,2),1) & " " & _ Mid(fDate,1,4) Without the topic.asp upgrade, it seems to work fine and we love it!