I'd like to help, but I'm not a windoze programmer. If no one else steps up, I'll see what I can do, but it may mean installing some additional stuff on your laptop. (I don't do Visual Basic. Maybe Java with serial port extensions or perl or...)

This would be easy to do under Linux, but I'm guessing there are all sorts of reasons you'd rather not go that way. <img src="/images/graemlins/frown.gif" alt="" />