@ Charlie
I am not sure. Let's try to narrow down the possibilities a bit. There are two versions of FavRenAdd. One is for ASCII and the other is international for use with UTF8. Which one are you using?
The second question is the version of Windows Script Host and JScript that you are running. To find that answer, download this file and then double click on it.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1522294/whatVer2.vbs
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