Josh,

This is too weird. I even ran the debugger from the command window and then started the form from within the debugger. I get the error immediately...before even one line of code shows in the debugger. How is this possible?

I am going nuts!

>Paul,
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>The Only thing I can think of is that your code is never executing. Is the Load event in the form or is it in a class the form is based on? If it's a class, make sure you haven't overriden the code in the form.
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>If that's not it, is the suspend the first line of the load? It sounds like maybe it returns from the load before it gets to the suspend.
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>The Load should definitely run before any of the objects on the form are instantiated.
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>>Thanks for the response. I just put a suspend command in the load event of the form and I was suprised to find that I got the error prior to the execution being suspended. Is the grd.column1.ControlSource trying to be set before the forms load in 6.0? I'm at a loss as to what to try next.