Hi,
This is just my two-cents. One of the Hero members may be best to hear from on this type issue.
Not sure if the issue is with Dragon or with HAL or with XP SP2 and/or a combination. Also not sure if everything was running fine for a long while and then "this problem" just appeared one day. Like maybe after a Microsoft update was applied??"
Also how much memory does your system have and what CPU do you have? 4GB is good for XP SP2 32 bit, (more is wasted) but, any less and intensive apps like DNS can hog the system down and cause all kinds of errors, freeze ups and crashes all the way up to the dreaded Blue-screen-of-death!
Simple Logic is, IF Dragon works with everything (MS Word, Outlook, Notepad, Internet Explorer), and you only get this error / failure with HAL then it points to that connection as the issue. However if Dragon fails under other applications then the problem points more to Dragon (and/or your system resources) being the issue.
A search of "“
Runtime error '430' class does not support Automation or does not support expected" comes back with a load of Visual Basic error reports. Most along the lines of a missing, corrupted or errant registered DLLs. There are ways to find/fix and re-register a DLL but they are not for a novice.
Easier fixes are full re-installs to get those bad-DLLs properly installed and registered.
-Note- After any re-install, be sure to update the re-installed software before you move to the next re-install.
You could go look for and download the latest VB patch(s) for XP SP2 from Microsoft and give that a go. If the corruption is in a VB DLL update that just got miss-applied then that could fix you up.
Another is to try reinstalling Dragon (frankly I would give that a go first as it is the easiest of all options) and if that don't work select
Move/Deactivate Licence while in HAL from the [File] menu, then uninstall HAL and reinstall it, and then reactivate HAL.
If that don't fix the issue then things get dicey because XP is now officially on Microsoft's dead-OS list.
FYI: We have a DNS line of discussion on this thread:
http://www.ultrahal.com/community/index.php?topic=9669.0 and a few of the "Heros" are participating.
Hope this helps.
BW