Terry,
>I was thinking of overlaying a semi transparent form with a "Label" control along the width of the progress bar. This produces a additional item in the task bar.
While I can not help you with your problem at hand, what you said is not entirely true, for at least since VFP 8 you have a ShowInTaskBar property in the forms to avoid just that.
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