>[...] I do not even need the resource file in this small exe and included a config.fpw that has "resource=off". Nowhere in the exe is the resource file set.

In cases where you have this config.fpw and still get the resource error, are you sure the exe is USING that config.fpw? Is it in the directory with the exe, and is there no command-line switch in the shortcut specifying a different config.fpw? No FOXPROCFG environment variable set? Etc, etc.

HTH,