In reply to James Willis.

James, it's unusual to not have permissions to WORK. Are you using EG along with SAS on your PC? Or is the SAS session a remote server? That is, are you using "no profile" mode?

The only time I've seen this play up is when I'm using a single machine instance of SAS with a metadata server, and I'm using an account (such as "sasdemo") that doesn't have very many privileges on my local machine.