>Ok, I'm really frustrated here!!!

Understood. I sympathize. I'll have to dig in to see what you're seeing. However, we could be running different versions of VMP. Also you may have changes I don't have, etc. etc.

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>I am opening a form with a direct call to DO FORM Forms\wzinvoice.scx. SET TALK is OFF at this point. I have a
>breakpoint set to change when TALK changes.

wzInvoice? That's not part of VMP.

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>When I step into the DO FORM, the debugger now goes into the PageCount_Assign of pgfBase. I did a search, and
>this property is not being set in code anywhere. The value passed in is 6, which is the number of pages on the
>pageframe. As soon as I step, TALK is set to ON.
>
>What I don't get is why I'm in this method. I have yet to reach any DE or Load event code, so the controls on
>the form have not yet Init'ed, so how can the PageCount be getting set?
>
>Ok, I'm really stuck here and I need some help.

The pageframe itself must be initializing. I've been recently working with backstyle_access in the grid and backstyle gets accessed more than you might expect.