Error Trapping

I'm having a hard time getting my head around this problem. I have to connect to a FoxPro database using an ODBC driver. Sometimes when I connect I get an error. The error doesn't occur all the time and usually another connect attempt works. I can trap the error through an error handler. However, I use a class to connect to the database. What I want to do is to check for that error and, if it occurs, try to connect again. Since the error handler is outside the class, how can I create the object again and make sure it gets passed back to my script that called it? I hope that made sense! Thanks! Floyd