>I have a textbox2 which never receives the focus when textbox1 explicitly says thisform.mytextbox2.setfocus in several of its events.
>instead, a cmdbutton gets the focus. I have even blanked out all of textbox2's events. I have to actually place the cursor manually with the mouse into textbox2 to give it the focus.

Besides thisform.mytextbox2.setfocus issue NODEFAULT.