> Any other thoughts?

Yep sure!

Forget for a while that VS2005 has an IDE and drop to the command line.

Download http://cool.haxx.se/curl-daily/curl-7.17.2-20071123.zip and
uncompress it somewhere.

Open a command prompt window and do the following from it:

Find vsvars32.bat in vs2005 and run it.
Change to where you uncompressed curl-7.17.2-20071123.zip
Edit line 24 in makefile and change "VC=vc6" into "VC=vc8", save and close it.
run 'nmake vc'

That should build the library and curl for you under a known configuration.

Afterwards you can study src/Makefile.vc8 and easily adapt it to build
your program.

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