>Sorry for the delay, I lost a hard drive while on the road and couldn't get here.

Oof. I feel for you. Hope you had the important stuff backed up.

>It is less problemsome for a container to know about the thing contained than it is for sibling objects to have awareness of each other, so it would appear to me that the best approach is to have the form's property use an assign method to refresh the control, then the other code simply assings a vlaue to the form's property and the rest is handled.

This sounds like the best solution to me. I would much rather the form know the control's name than another control...