In reply to Chris Hemedinger.

yes, i do know that there is a 32 bit version of sas, but for some reason my IT dept is not ready yet to install sas 5.1 32 bit on my computer. Strangely enough they are ready for rolling sas 5.1 64 bit version. I dont know why they more prioritize the deployment of 64 bit sas eg 5.1 when our database oracle is still 10g 32 bit. at the moment i use sas eg 4.1 32 bit bcoz that is the only 32 bit version that is available to me.