>Exactly what I did. I skinned the screen. Then I created a form exactly fitting around a ctToolBar menu. Then I ran the form and placed it right below my new skinned "title bar." (Neither ctToolBar nor command bars library will let you attach a menu directly to the screen.)
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>of course, now I have different problems (see thread in activeX section) but I have achieved the skinned form plus menu look on the screen.

An alternative to using the ActiveX is to use the owner-drawn menu class developed by Herman Tan. Instead of using the main menu, define popup menus. Then in your skinned form create a menu bar and use the mouse events to trigger your popup menus. This way you don't have a standard VFP menu.

I have used Herman Tan's class and it works very well.