Naomi -- I DID turn on event tracking. It did show the events working in an unfamiliar order. Are you suggesting that event tracking might NOT be showing the events in the order they occur?

>>You think that the event tracking I showed you from the debugger, showing the INITs before the LOAD is not sufficient? I mean, the only reason I found out about this is because the SET statements in the LOAD of the form had not happened yet, so stuff appeared on my form (the values from assignments) ... which tells me that it is indeed acting as if the INITs precede the LOAD.
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>Just to be 100% sure that's the cause of the problem, I wanted a definite proof. Say, you can turn on event tracking or write to log file in each method with the name of the calling method.