>But why would it work just fine with VFP7, and the only one to not work with 9?

I have no idea. If you've re-installed VFP9 (and not installed anything else after that) - and you've verified the font file itself is good, then my gut says it's an OS problem. Is this happening on just this one machine? Do you have 7 and 9 installed on the same machine?

The only other thing I can think of is that you could a the form as a table - then browse it, then kinda poke though all the memo fields in it and look for that font name and make sure nothing looks odd. That is assuming the font is like on a label or caption or something - but you get the idea. That would be really far-fetched though if that was the problem.

Is this happening just inside VFP - or do you see this when you run the compiled .exe?
Do you have all the hotfixes for VFP 9 SP2 ?? There are a couple of hotfixes that you have to copy files yourself to specific folders....