David,

much snipped

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>And the worst problem I had was in a classlib parser that created several double linked lists of nodes. There was just no way to ever get everything to properly release. I had to create a single linked list of allocated nodes in the lowest level node class that provided a way to get to every node so that they could set their pointers .null.

I just couldn't resist: Given that you know when you are finished with an object, then if RELEASE actuall released the object, you woudn't have had the devil of a time you describe.
You were put through hoops entirely unnecessarily!

Does that help you see what I am getting at?

Jim N