diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
index a5dd939..7c817fa 100644
--- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
+++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
@@ -34,6 +34,10 @@
     <td width="13%" valign="top">1699946 </td>
     <td width="87%" valign="top">(pre-release 5) Unrecognized event callback id leaves thread attached to VM when ComFailException is thrown.</td>
   </tr>
+  <tr>
+    <td width="13%" valign="top">1699965 </td>
+    <td width="87%" valign="top">(pre-release 5) toJavaObject() fails for Dispatch because getDispatchRef() called instead of getDispatch().</td>
+  </tr>
   <tr>
     <td width="13%" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>
     <td width="87%" valign="top">&nbsp;</td>
diff --git a/src/com/jacob/com/Variant.java b/src/com/jacob/com/Variant.java
index befe05e..d35d64e 100644
--- a/src/com/jacob/com/Variant.java
+++ b/src/com/jacob/com/Variant.java
@@ -525,7 +525,10 @@ public class Variant extends JacobObject {
     /**
      * @return the content of this variant as a Dispatch object (after possible conversion)
      */
-    public Dispatch toDispatch(){ return toVariantDispatch(); }
+    public Dispatch toDispatch(){
+    	// now make the native call
+    	return toVariantDispatch(); 
+    }
     
     /**
      * native method used by toDispatch()
@@ -698,16 +701,20 @@ public class Variant extends JacobObject {
     }
 
     /** 
-     * same as {@link #toDispatch()}
-     * This is different than the other get methods.
-     * It calls toDispatch which will do type conversion.
-     * Most getXXX() methods will return null if the data is not of 
-     * the requested type
-     * @return this object as a dispatch (Why isn't this typed as type Dispatch?)
+     * cover for {@link #toDispatch()}
+     * This method now matches other getXXX() methods.  It throws an IllegalStateException
+     * if the object is not of type VariantDispatch
+     * @return this object as a dispatch 
+     * @throws IllegalStateException if wrong variant type
      */
     public Dispatch getDispatch() {
-        return toDispatch();
-    }
+    	if ((this.getvt() & VariantDispatch) == VariantDispatch) {
+        		return toDispatch();
+		} else {
+			throw new IllegalStateException(
+					"getDispatch() only legal on Variants of type VariantDispatch, not "+this.getvt());
+		}
+   	}
 
     /** 
      * This acts a cover for 
@@ -1282,14 +1289,14 @@ public class Variant extends JacobObject {
 
     /**
      * Dispatch and dispatchRef are treated the same
-     * This is just a cover for getDispatch() with a flag check
-     * @return the results of getDispatch()
+     * This is just a cover for toDispatch() with a flag check
+     * @return the results of toDispatch()
      * @throws IllegalStateException if variant is not of the requested type
      */
     public Dispatch getDispatchRef() {
     	if ((this.getvt() & VariantDispatch) == VariantDispatch &&
         		(this.getvt() & VariantByref) == VariantByref) {
-        		return getDispatch();
+        		return toDispatch();
 		} else {
 			throw new IllegalStateException(
 					"getDispatchRef() only legal on byRef Variants of type VariantDispatch, not "+this.getvt());
@@ -1686,7 +1693,10 @@ public class Variant extends JacobObject {
 			    result = this.getStringRef();
 			    break;
 		    case Variant.VariantDispatch : //9
-			    result = this.getDispatchRef();
+			    result = this.getDispatch();
+			    break;
+		    case Variant.VariantDispatch | Variant.VariantByref: //9
+			    result = this.getDispatchRef(); // Can dispatches even be byRef?
 			    break;
 		    case Variant.VariantError : //10
 			    result = new NotImplementedException("toJavaObject() Not implemented for VariantError");
diff --git a/unittest/com/jacob/com/VariantTest.java b/unittest/com/jacob/com/VariantTest.java
index b1e5275..d85821e 100644
--- a/unittest/com/jacob/com/VariantTest.java
+++ b/unittest/com/jacob/com/VariantTest.java
@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@ class VariantTest {
 		testJig.testObjectIsAConstant();
 		testJig.testSomeChangeVT();
 		testJig.testByRefToJavaObject();
+		testJig.testDispatchToJavaObject();
+		System.out.println("Starting last test");
 		testJig.testManyThreadedInit();
 		System.out.println("Testing Complete");
 		
@@ -106,6 +108,18 @@ class VariantTest {
 		// need to do currency also
 	}
 	
+	/**
+	 * 4/2007 bug report toObject on dispatch tries to call getDispatchRef
+	 * instead of getDispatch so toString() on dispatch blows up.
+	 *
+	 */
+	private void testDispatchToJavaObject(){
+		Variant v2 = new Variant();
+		v2.putNothing();
+		// this test fails even though the exact same code below works fine
+		//v2.toJavaObject();
+	}
+	
 	/**
 	 * see what happens when we conver to by ref
 	 *
@@ -237,7 +251,7 @@ class VariantTest {
 	 *
 	 */
 	private void testSafeReleaseConstant(){
-		System.out.println("Using Static constant Variant - should never throw access violation");
+		//System.out.println("Using Static constant Variant - should never throw access violation");
 		Variant.VT_TRUE.safeRelease();
 		if (Variant.VT_TRUE.getBoolean() != true){
 			System.out.println("VT_TRUE has been broken by SafeRelease()");
@@ -387,7 +401,10 @@ class VariantTest {
 		if (!v2.isNull()){
 			System.out.println("putNothing is supposed to cause isNull() to return true");
 		}
-		
+		// this line blows up in the test above
+		if (v2.toJavaObject() == null){
+			System.out.println("putNothing() followed by toJavaObject() should return a Dispatch");
+		}
 		
 	}