>I GOT IT! Dragan, you led me to the answer.
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>I went into Control Panel -- > Regional and Language Options -- > Advanced --- > Language for non-Unicode programs
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>SET TO English (United States)
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>{It had been set to Hebrew}. I rebooted the computer and when I launched foxpro the funny corsor was gone!

Wish I knew that then :). The two days I spent using that machine were truly frustrating.