Vista and MDAC

Hi

I have been sent a program that was built for XP and requires MDAC to run,
I have tried running it in XP compatibility mode but get an error.
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Run-time error '429':
ActiveX component can't create object
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I get this error with and without compatibility mode.

I have tried running as admin also.

Any ideas on how I can fix this?

thanks

Daniel