CreateObject of 'APServer.Object' hangs

[Al Baker]

I am trying to use ActivePDF instead of CFDocument to convert a web page to
PDF. To do so, two com objects must be invoked. Instead of getting any error
message or any other warning, I get the slow and unending march of the little
green boxes in the status bar at the bottom of the screen. (Actually after
about 5 of those little boxes shows up, more don't appear, but those five boxes
end up sitting there 'forever' if a long timeout is specified.) Here are the
two lines of code I used to test the 'hang':

<cfset SV=CreateObject('COM','APServer.Object')>
<cfabort>

If I place the cfabort first, I quickly get a blank page, as expected.

In the above configuration, I get infinite page loading status.