Class doesn't support Automation: 'CreateObject'

[Roger]

I'm not sure if this is the proper forum for this question.

We have an old ASP application. A couple of our pages have some client side
vbscript with the command (NOTE - this is client side scripting)

set rst = CreateObject( "ADODB.Recordset")

On both pages, Internet Explorer started generating the script error Class
doesn't support Automation: 'CreateObject'

This just started, so we are fairly certain it was a recent XP security
patch (all our clients use Windows XP, IE 7).

Does anyone know what patch caused this this problem and if there is a work
around, other than removing the patch.

We have someone working on updating the code to .NET, but its going to take
them a while. Looking for a quick work around. Thanks.