>I had neglected to push those file to the users, but to test this was the solution, I copied the files to one of the PCs and then registered the foxhhelpps7.dll. Still no response when I press F1.
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>I then modified a form to add a setall command in the init to set the HelpContextId to correct value and then in the help button I created I entered this in the click method: HELP ID THIS.HelpContextID. This also had no effect.
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>For what it's worth when I click the chm file on the server I get a failure message from IE saying it was unable to link to the web page...

That's known issue introduced by WinXP/Win2k3 security patches. See http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=896358