curmudgeon, thanks for the reply, I believe this is actually what danallen's lisp does. As for delivering/recieving CAD files with references, I completely agree and prefer recieving and sending unbound files.
Danallen, thank you again for the code. I have not had the opportunity to research this more, but I really like the logic of remapping the unloaded files to a blank file, so simple, never would have thought of it... I need to research what the doslibs are and try to understand exactly what the code is doing to manipulate, but I am very confident this will do the trick when I'm done learning it.