In our asp web application this code used to work just fine to launch a
snapshot report in a new window.  

<a target="_blank" href="../reports/Users/Employee Birthdays By
Range.snp">Employee Birthdays By Range.snp</a>

Pretty straightforward.  It seems like starting somewhere in IE 5.5+,
something has changed in the browser/security settings to prevent the activex
control from properly displaying the report in a new window.  Instead it
wants to download the file with an .mdb extension.  weird.

To fix it I had to embed the snapshot viewer in the page that originally had
the links.

<OBJECT ID="SnapshotViewer" WIDTH=775 HEIGHT=550
CLASSID="CLSID:F0E42D60-368C-11D0-AD81-00A0C90DC8D9">
<PARAM NAME="_ExtentX" VALUE="16722">
<PARAM NAME="_ExtentY" VALUE="11774">
<PARAM NAME="_Version" VALUE="65536">
<PARAM NAME="SnapshotPath" VALUE="<%=reporturl & "/" & FileArray(i)%>">
<PARAM NAME="Zoom" VALUE="1">
<PARAM NAME="AllowContextMenu" VALUE="-1">
<PARAM NAME="ShowNavigationButtons" VALUE="-1">
</OBJECT>

Now it works fine, but doesn't offer the same desired solution by management
as before.  I did quite a bit of research on the security patches to prevent
the buffer overflow problem with the snapshot viewer control, but have been
unable to change any settings that would recreate the old behavior of
allowing it to open in a new window.  Any ideas.