>Arnon,
>
>FYI - If under TOOLS | OPTIONS | Help File is deslected
>HELP | Microsoft Visual FoxPro Help Topics - is disabled....

where did you say otherwise?
and IAC did you verify that the path to the help file is correct

btw the registry key matching this option is
\HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\VisualFoxPro\5.0\Options\HelpTo


Arnon