How did you go with your COM travels?
Well, I actually got stuck with that one, though I'll probably come back to it sometime soon.

However, I did use the same mechanisms in another little project I did, about which I'll post a short article on CodeProject soon.
It saved me all the COM hassle and made for a beautiful little Extended STL project :-).
I'll probably post it in about 2 weeks, as I'm off to a vacation tomorrow.
I'll post the link here when its up on CodeProject. I think you'll like it.
Any final requests for 1.9.1?
None at the moment.
When I last used it it did every thing I wanted, needed and more*.

Adi

* 'more' means that after I wrote my class that contains a COM resource I needed to use it in another API that needed it to be copy-constructible, something I hadn't notice before. Naturally, the automatic ref-counting allowed that without any changes so I was home free, and everything worked as planned.