Hi Alastair,

>Is this by design, and without using Forms is there anything you can do about this? It will not cause me a problem (I don't think) but I was still surprised that this was the case...I'd have figured that each instance was *COMPLETEY* self-contained.

Have a look at instancing in Project Info (Server tab). I think you probably set it to single which creates only one automation server and all others would be references. Set it to multiple intancing and hopefully you should be OK.