>In the old style report designer (VFP 7), is there a way to call a report from a form, retrieve a value from within the report and then have that new value available after the report is run? Thanks for any help on this!

Hi Steven,
I did a quick test in vfp9. I created a simple report and added pncount var to count the records. I initialize it in a form's method called doreport:

* test to see if var stays in scope in report and after
PRIVATE m.pnCount
m.pnCount=-1
REPORT FORM C:\TEMP\TEST.FRX preview
WAIT WINDOW "number of records="+TRANSFORM(m.pnCount)

The pncount var shows that the correct value.