>You're right. It DID do that, and I did click on that option.
>So now I do get a toolbox, but there are no icons in the toolbox that now pops up... not sure what's going on here.

It shows up with the 'favorites' first - and you won't have any of those yet. Do you see anything if you click any of the buttons in the toolbox like "text scraps' or 'vfp base classes' ???