>Are you able to narrow this down to any one file or group of files included in the project that causes this? Do all projecs cause the error?
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>Since it seems as if you have tried all of the textbook fixes (your post made me feel really lucky), I would be looking for file-centric problems.
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>Create a dummy project and add your files to it few by few, compiling each time, and see which files cause the beast to rear it's ugly head.

Thanks Eric, I thought that I had narrowed it to a DBC, but I removed the one that was showing in the status bar when I got the error (it corrupted it) and the next build corrupted a different DBC.

I had recreated the project a few weeks ago when I had a different problem and added all the files back, but that thought hadn't hit me yet (sometimes they have to hit me pretty hard). I just created a new project this morning and starting adding DBC's one at a time. On the third one it blew again (no forms, classes...nothin' else in the project). I have a backup copy of my source in a different directory, so I copied the DBC's back over. Still got the error. Then it hit me (finally), that maybe I had gotten a file into my backup directory that was corrupt. So I went to a backup CD from a month ago and pulled the DBC's from there. THAT WORKED! I deleted the dummy project and put my original project back in and it compiled without errors (fully loaded with DBC's, classes .. the works). I sure would like to know what causes this. My dbc's looked fine, they just wouldn't let my project compile.

I'm so happy I may take the rest of the day off! (yea right)

Thanks again for your help, hope I can return the favor someday.