>Tracy,
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>Thanks for the replies and links. I've gotten more comments on this post than any question I've ever asked so I'm entergized to finally resolve this issue. I'm sure the answer is somewhere in all of the ideas presented here.

Just to add some more salt into the pot, seeing that you have a config.fpw type of file specified in that command line - you could add a "screen=off" line, or "console=off" or some such, so maybe it wouldn't even come up (unless it errors) to steal the focus at all.