What I need to do is search one ROOT DIR (FTP) and find all files listed in any DIR with a filter for MODIFIED DATE > 9/1/2008. I thought to use a batch file, but maybe VBS would work as well. There are MANY DIR's within the FTP ROOT. Then I would need to output the FILENAMES that meet criteria of the DATE to output to a delimited TXT so that I have 'UNCpath|filename|datemodified'

from looking in this forum, there's a way to change date format in Xp. (possibly even specific to "dir" cmd). if so, the easiest way would be change format to yyyy[/]mm[/]dd, do "dir /s | sort /r > filenam", then just read through the file until the substringim is less than 20080901 or equiv (dep on delimiter: /,-,etc) then have batchfile change date format back to normal. my guess is that Xp's DIR might even have a switch to alternative-format date then your batch would not have to change system-wide settings for small-scale op. i know this not much help. if my Xp system was working i could be more specific and test some things.

the foll. might work (not complete, just working segment) setlocal enableDelayedExpansion for /f "tokens=*, delims=" in ('dir /s /tw') do ( set c=%%a if "!c:~1,13! equ "Directory of " set p=!c:~13,200! if "!c:~0,1!" neq " " ( set b=!c:~6,4!!c~0,2!!c~3,2! set f=!c:~39,200! if "!b!" gtr "20080901" do ( echo !p!, !f!, !b! >> test)) may need a couple other tests to skip the garbage from coming into "test" (the headings etc.)