How do I read Excel files in Coldfusion

After much searching I have decided to join EE so I might be able to solve my problem.

I got some code from my fellow developers to read a Excel file in Coldfusion but it no longer works in MX

<cfquery dbtype="dynamic" CONNECTSTRING="Driver={Microsoft Excel Driver (*.xls)};DriverId=790;Dbq=#Session.filepath#;DefaultDir=#Session.filepath#;" name="InputQuery">

Then I managed to find some COM object thing that is a Custom tag that suppose to do the same thing..{ReadXLS.cfm} but it also doesn't work

Is there anybody out there that can actually do this?

Custom Tag / CFFile / CFQuery .. I don't care.. I just need to get the excel file read into CF, after that I will split the data and validate it and write a text file out to do the rest of my process.. In a perfect world I would ask the end-users to actually save the Data Dumps as CSV but I can't and they will not do this... So I need to somehow read the DATA from the Excel file.

My next option is to just do it in PHP... but that would require a whole new system.. and I would rather find a solution to my current problem than re-write everything in PHP

Kind Regards
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