Before opening form X, I need to make sure that all other forms are closed including other instances of form X. Putting the following code in the load of the form doesn't work.

for Ctr = 1 to _Screen.FormCount
release windows (_Screen.Forms(Ctr).Name)
endfor

This doesn't gracefully close the forms. That is, it just removes the forms from memory leaving various objects, cursors, variables, etc. So I tried the following:

for Ctr = 1 to _Screen.FormCount
_Screen.Forms(Ctr).Name.release
release windows (_Screen.Forms(Ctr).Name)
endfor

That produces a pile of errors.
I also tried moving this code to a seperate procedure with a "do form ..." after it which produced similar results and problems.

Any ideas?