NS> MySecondVar=(ChildClass *)temp;

Yeah, that works great... thanks!

NS> instead?  I'm very curious about how what you're doing works out, I'm
NS> using an array of pointers to the base class in my implementation of
NS> polymorphism

My data structure is rather complicated.  Each node contains a pointer to the
base type and can either contain either a tree or linked list....
  
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