Hi Paul.

>I thought VFP did something like that for multi-threaded components (so I'm not sure why you'd see the same behavior for a single-instance DLL). It was a work around to the fact that the runtimes weren't really multi-threaded. I did some searching and found this:
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>http://technet.microsoft.com/fr-fr/subscriptions/index/31ey7e1k(v=vs.80)

That was it -- changing to multi-use DLL resolved the problem. You da man once again!

Doug