MDB2 oci8 use SID in connect string

Hi list, I've been having a heck of a time fiddling with this problem. I'm using the MDB2 oci8 package to connect to our Oracle database. In the connect method, it specifies a connect string with SERVICE_NAME in it. With this in place, oci8://user:password@server.site.com/service the connection results in the error "TNS:Listener does not currently know of service requested in connect descriptor" I had the same problem with ADODB a while back, and fixed it by setting the connectSID variable to true. I looked at their code and noticed that the MDB2 package did not include a similar check. To make it work, I added another check to see if the option sid= was set; something like this oci8://user:password@server.site.com/?sid=service This replaces the SERVICE_NAME= string with SID= and allows me to connect to the oracle database. So I have two questions really. One, what is the difference between the SERVICE_NAME and SID values in that connect string, and two, I'd like to contact the MDB2 maintainer to send them this patch I have in the hopes that they will include it in the release. Thanks in advance, Tim