Howto click on a activeX Control

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Trying to automate a webpage which presents an inputbox which calls a datetimepicker activeX control where the user can select a FROM and a TO date.

</SCRIPT><tr> 
  <TD>WD From Date</TD>
  <td> 
    <OBJECT classid=CLSID:DE2E3B51-5C35-11D3-9B8E-006097501F28 
            codeBase=http:\\URL\Directory\ActiveX\dtpick\DTPick.CAB#version=1,0,0,1 
            id=dtp1 style="HEIGHT: 22px; LEFT: 0px; TOP: 0px" width=97 VIEWASTEXT>
            <PARAM NAME="_ExtentX" VALUE="2566">
            <PARAM NAME="_ExtentY" VALUE="661">
            <PARAM NAME="Value" VALUE="date">
            <PARAM NAME="CustomFormat" VALUE="DD-MM-YYYY">
    </OBJECT>
 </td>
</tr>
<tr>
  <TD width="114">WD To Date</TD>
  <td>
    <OBJECT classid=CLSID:DE2E3B51-5C35-11D3-9B8E-006097501F28 
            codeBase=http:\\URL\Directory\ActiveX\dtpick\DTPick.CAB#version=1,0,0,1 
            id=dtp2 style="HEIGHT: 22px; LEFT: 0px; TOP: 0px" width=97 VIEWASTEXT>
            <PARAM NAME="_ExtentX" VALUE="2566">
            <PARAM NAME="_ExtentY" VALUE="661">
            <PARAM NAME="Value" VALUE="date">
            <PARAM NAME="CustomFormat" VALUE="DD-MM-YYYY">
    </OBJECT>
  </td>
</TR>
<script LANGUAGE=vbscript>

AutoIT Info shows this

Class : DTPicker20WndClass
Instance : 1
ClassNN : DTPicker20WndClass1
Advanced(Class) : [clASS:DTPicker20WndClass; INSTANCE:1]

I've tried this

$oform = _IEFormGetObjectByName($oIE,"frma")

$odate = _IEGetObjByID($oform,"dtp1")

_IEAction($odate,"click")

and also tried using

_IEFormElementSetValue ($odate,"15-Jul-2008")

both doesnt work.

Any and all help is very much appreciated