>Chris:
>I tried your suggestion. Nothing has changed I am still getting the same error. To give you a little more information, if I click the detail button, it says the following: Rating caused an exception 10H in module VFP500.DLL at 014f:1006582b.
>thank you for your suggestion.
>sherry

Sherry,

As Ed mentioned this is a known problem and the fix is to use _fpreset(). You'll find instructions on how to declare it and call it from VFP in the MS Knowledge Base. The article number is Q183522.

hth,