>>>>> What I've found on the internet leads me to believe that this is a VFP 8 bug. Either SP1 for VFP8 or VFP9 will fix this error.
>>>< object >.Addproperty( < name >, < variable > )
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>>>Unfortunately, it is happening when I've setup with COM and the error only happens 1 in every 200 commands or so. I couldn't get that "Not a Character Expression" error to occur within command window. That's when I looked on the web and found a couple of articles that say this is an internal Foxpro bug.
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>I was hoping someone had heard about this issue. I need to give my employers some assurances that this should fix the issue and that will justify the time spent installing the service pack. I spent quite a bit of time on the issue already and after hearing that this is an internal Foxpro bug, I didn't want to spend anymore company time on it.

Dan,

I have skipped versions myself. But skipping a SP makes less sense, as with time the answers will nearly always come from users of the last SP. In case of vfp I argue strongly for anybody to switch to V9SP2 - there will not be any change and the eroding helper base comes works with that.

You might give better value for $ spent switching to V9Sp2 if testing schedule allows it. Switch over and batch test a couple of thousand runs....

my 0.02 EUR

thomas