>I am in my first attempt at building a stand-alone .EXE. I have built .app's before, and I now have one that I want to build into an .EXE. Do I need to put any files into my project, if so where. All advise is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

same as building an app, but check the 'build exe' option instead of 'build app'. do create distribution disks, move exe, data, reports (external reports anyhow) to a clean directory, run the setup wizard, and go from there.