>The DLL is like a separate instance of VFP. That's why the cursor doesn't go to the host program...

It is - but some things aren't quite so separate.

Just ran into a bug (MS calls it a feature) that when you SET DEFAULT TO in a
VFP COM object called from a VFP COM client it will change the path for both
the DLL and client.

There may be other globals that do the same...

+++ Rick ---