>I have a new situation that I am trying to put together a smooth strategy for.
>

I am curious... do you want the application form to come up either way? Or, you want the registry to come up as Top Level?

My advice would be, don't call the Registry form from the Init, call it from another method (do) in your app object.

So, your main.prg would be something like...
public goApp
goApp = create('cApplication')

if vartype( goApp ) == "O"
if goApp.Do
read events
endif
endif

Then your do could do something like...
local llRetVal
llRetVal = This.CheckRegistrySettings()
*continue initing your ap object level services here...
if llRetVal
llRetVal = this.LoadFormsManager()
endif
if llRetVal
llRetVal = this.LoadBizObjManager()
endif

return llRetVal

BOb