>On some machines (this morning, it was 4 out of 14) after the first Listening question, the (blank) Reading form comes forward and the application is locked up.
>
>Any ideas as to why this is happening? This is a little crazy-making.

Swag:
If you have manual access to the HW, load task manager, look for a rdpclip.exe task.
If this is running, kill it - and look if your app is still locked up.

If not, describe what the timer does -
from description I get the impression getting time into a property might be sufficient.

regards

thomas