Just one other report now I know I'm not alone... This may or may not be relavant but, sometime back, I wrote (read hacked together) a simple C++ program to help me run abcm2ps and abc2midi from a textediting box. It just about did what I wanted but a found a problem when I changed from Win98 to Win2K. Although my temp MIDI file was overwritten under '98, an explicit "remove" was required under '2K.
Drifting, but Andy, I'm glad you enjoyed that little walk. As you may know, I'm on or near the other (East) coast of the UK now. I still think the Great Orme is a nice spot though...