>Let me preface this all, with "I hate modality" and it really irks me all the
>places VFP goes modal,

I know the feeling, but bear with me for a moment. :-)

My personal framework/mindset has most 'table maintenance' forms as modal. This allows forms which have combos that draw from these tables to have buttons next to the combos that launch these maintenance forms, allow you to edit/add/search, and then return to the combos and refresh them as per whatever was done in the maint forms.

Would you consider this a bad thing?

Should I change it so that the combo passes a reference to itself to the form, and the form refreshes the combo on its release, or does this lead to more problems when you try to release the original form and still have the reference open in the maint form?