Tom,

Just got done installing VS2008 on the machine's PC, and looking at what the JoyGetPosEx call is returning. Of course (we already knew this), the return value is 0, but the JOYINFOEX structure is pretty much empty:

dwSize = 52
dwFlags = 255
dwXPos-dwVPos = 0
dwButtons = 0
dwButtonNumber = 0
dwPOV = 0
dwReserved1 = 0xcccccccc
dwReserved2 = 0xcccccccc

Regards,
Ray L.