Well, last night I solved my OCR problem quite nicely, and I really feel dumb. I discovered an icon on my computer called Microsoft Office Document Scanning, so I clicked on it to check it out. It asked me for my MS Word 2002 installation disk, and then installed itself.
The resulting program works like a charm. You open the program, click "scan," and a nice image of the scanned page comes up. You highlight the text you want, and then right-click and select "copy as text." Then you go to Mudcat and paste the copied text into the message box, and there you have it. Exactly what I wanted - and I had it all the time.
Oh, fer dumb.
-Joe Offer-