Hi again and thanks for your quick reply ! I uninstalled the 009 and installed 009_17. Everything works happily on the non-javascript site but still fails on the java site. I can see that you have incorporate sleep(1) in your code now. I get the same error message (at line 1003 now) "Can't call method find_input" etc and additional messages saying there is no form numbered 1 named 'frmSingleShare'. Now I suspect the problem may be that the page is running 2 java scripts which separately create 2 separate forms on the page. If I specify form number only and the field name ie-mech still does not find the form. I'll try to find a site running just 1 javascript on the page to check this. Again thanks for your help - I very much appreciate it. Perhaps you can confirm my suspicion ? Geoff