Tom,
I'm not sure I really understand the nature of your problem. I assume when you say 2.6 you mean fpw2.6?? Are you running a 2.6 exe and calling a vfp app?? or have you transported the 2.6 program into vfp? If the former, then I don't see how it could work since the foundation read in 2.6 is a different animal than the read events in vfp. Personally, I have always run the menu in a prg file and then had a read valid or read events later in the prg. As you can see I am a little confused about what you are doing...