Frank,
VFP5 doesn't natively support form scroll bars. What you are seeing ar the scroll bars of the designer window. There are a couple of things in the libs here to allow VFP5 forms to scroll. Although most UI design guidelines recommend against scrolling forms.
VFP6 has added the ability to scroll forms.
>I have a form that uses a bitmap of a paper form as a backround. The idea is to fill the fields onto a form that the client is familiar with seeing. When I develop the form, the scroll bars show up in design mode, but when I switch to "run" mode, they disappear! Anyone know why this may be?