TFD internal error

The Thought for the Day page was giving an Internal Server error if the particular day's entry had not been made. And interestingly enough, putting an if statement to check if the record exists was preventing the TFD from being displayed at all, even if it exists. Nz solved the mystery: the text only version, which showed the TFD even though it had the if statement, had some extra type information when the recordset was being declared. Did the same for the former page, and got it to work. The
rsObject.Open strQuery,objConn,adOpenKeyset,adLockOptimistic
The last two, adOpenKeyset,adLockOptimistic were the ones added to the line.