>>>OK, accomplished and works! I guess the big diff was having rowsourcetype set to 5 instead of 3 like I had it. Thanks!
>>>Hopefully this will avoid the prob of opening and changing work areas that have their source in my comboboxes and getting those pesky errors.
>>>
>>> My combobox base class has this in it's init section
>>> this.AddProperty("arrayX[1]")
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>>Great. Just watch out for the problems with empty record in the source table...
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>I don't know why I was not aware that you need to close a table after selecting from it. So even when all tables are CLOSED and you issue a "Select * from sometable into" a cursor/or an array , you have to take care to close down sometable!!!

Are you using default or private data session for the form? If you use private DS and didn't touch DE properties, you don't have to, since the tables would be closed automatically for you. But if you don't need the tables during the form's life-time, you may close the tables once you have your array.