Well I did a lot of searches and ended up finding very little that was
useful, just enough to find the solution. If you're getting a bizzare 2287
runtime error or some machines and not others (often on Windows 2000 or XP
machines) it's probably because you're missing cdo.dll which is installed
with Outlook. After installing and configuring Outlook (I installed 2000 and
you should be ok with 98 but I'm not sure about any earlier versions and you
can just configure bogus information) the sendobject command should be
working.

In hopes that people that search for this error from now on will find this
post.