Exec and IIS

Hello, I feel like I'm beating a dead horse (I think that's the saying), but I'm having trouble with IIS and exec. I've read everything I can find on the subject, but I'm still unclear on a few things. What I want to do is fairly simple. Basically, some user will come to my page and select an option from a dropdown box. Their selection will be entered into a database. Then I would like to start an exe. When I go to the php page that has the exec command I never get the output. When I look at the server I can see my exe in the task manager, but it never ends and the program is not open on the desktop. If I run it again, the exe again shows up in the task manager, but again it does not end. I cannot manually end the process either. Any thoughts or suggestions? I really appreciate any help, this has been driving me nuts. Thanks, Nick __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Auctions - buy the things you want at great prices http://auctions.yahoo.com/