My browser app sends a request to the server for a binary file.  The server 
receives the request, converts the file to base64, packages it up in XML, and 
returns it to the client/browser.

I can parse the returned XML just fine -- and find the base64 data -- but 
for the life of me cannot get it decoded back to it's original format.  The 
script below gets the filedata (using "nodeTypedValue") and saves it, but 
it's still the base64 representation of the file.

I've tried a million different things, and have searched all over the web 
and newsgroups, and I just can't seem to find a combination that gets me the 
original unencoded/decoded filedata.

Two other notes:
1. On the server side, I set the dataType = "bin.base64"
2. When it's back here on the client, if I alert() out the dataType for the 
node, it's null.  I thought that was interesting.

Here is my client/browser JavaScript:
 var getdocs_xmlhttp = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.XMLHTTP.4.0");
 var getdocs_xmldoc  = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.4.0");
 getdocs_xmldoc.loadXML(reqxml);
 getdocs_xmlhttp.open("POST", "http://myserver/getbinfile.asp", false);
 getdocs_xmlhttp.send(getdocs_xmldoc);

  getdocs_xmldoc.loadXML(getdocs_xmlhttp.responseText); 
  //getdocs_xmldoc.save(folderpath + "download.xml");
  var root           = getdocs_xmldoc.documentElement;
  var inodelist      = root.childNodes;

...
parsing through for other data as well (i.e. filename)
...
   if( nitem.nodeName == "filedata" )
   {
     var objStream = new ActiveXObject("ADODB.Stream")
     objStream.Type = 1;
     objStream.Open();
     objStream.Write( nitem.childNodes.item(0).nodeTypedValue );
     objStream.SaveToFile( folderpath + tfilename, (1 & 2) );
     objStream.Close();
   }

ANY help would be MUCH appreciated.  Thank you all!

-b