Mon,

>Yes but I thought since they are encapsulated to the second form object, they would be protected and not released by a different object (first form.)

Well the second form had no way to tell the environment it wants those files too, so no it can't protect them. It just found them available when it launched so it used them.

>These are all good suggestions. If I do a hide instead of a release, would there be an advantage to using a "Form Set" with three forms instead of three separate forms? Thanks.

I guess a Formset would get around the problem ok because the Formset owns the DE. I don't use formsets, because I don't find any benefit to using them, so I can't tell you the details using them. There is another thread in the last couple of days talking about formset pros/cons.

I don't know exactly what you are needing to do, but at first impression I'd use a 3 page tabless pageframe if you've got a step 1, 2, 3 form interface.