Roy
I followed your suggestion of trying Microstudio. As you cautioned, I had to set the flag to enable the online database for Microstudio. But it still does not get through and gives me the exact same results as the Hoster program with the same message.
Since all the other Hoster accesses to the Internet work, it must be something unique to the lookup database site that is causing the problem.
I figure it is either a software bug, a user error (me), or maybe the fact that I am using Hughesnet to access the database. Occasionally some sites that are passworded require me to answer security questions because my internet IP changes all the time as is usual with Hughesnet. I would hope my registered software would not fail because of a change in IP address.
Another thought is that I still have the Hoster demo installed. Should I uninstall it? I delayed that because I wanted to disturb as little as possible as I worked through the Hoster learning curve.
I will keep watching for help on this. This is a biggie. I would have mentioned it earlier, but I had other problems which have since been solved by you.
Smoky