>I don't know what that means,Tamar... "running VFP as an administrator".

Never mind, now that I see you're using WinXP. Shouldn't be an issue there.

>First off, there have been absolutely no changes on my pc. Is it possible VFP has gotten corrupted somehow and maybe I need to reinstall it?
>

I don't see how VFP can have been corrupted in some way that prevents building an EXE. Though I don't see why it would help, you can try renaming your FoxUser.DBF, so you start with a new one.

Tamar