I had the same problem awhile back. Unfortunately, since I barely remember my own name from day to day, I don't remember exactly how I solved the problem. But I believe that it was that the Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) that I was using was version 2.0 and I had to update it to version 2.1. Check which version of MDAC you have (on my machine it's C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Vb98\Wizards\PDWizard\Redist\Mdac_typ.exe, but it may be in a different location on your machine). If it is 2.0 then you need to replace that file with version 2.1 which is included with Service Pack 3. This file gets distributed with your setup program and gets run during the installation. If you don't have 2.1, I think it won't work.

Hope this helps,
Rippin