I'll give it another go round with those, but I think I tried that before. If I remember correctly I had some kind of compiler problems with RUBY_INIT_STACK. All of the embedding discussions I've seen poking around google didn't mention it so I figured it wasn't used in embedding. Anyway, I'll try messing with that again. :) Any further advice would be welcome, as I mentioned I have to collect this information and then go back home and tinker with it away from the internet, so I'd really like to get as much advice as possible before returning to the secret-lab/stinky-bachelor-pad. -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/.