>>Peter,
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>>One of the *numerous* fixes in SP3 appears to address exactly this.
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>Thanks for the tip. I will install SP3.

Oops. I see that SP3 is for VFP6. I'm still on VFP5. I guess I'll just live with this until I can upgrade my whole application.

I'm still a little wary of VFP6. I dislike the occassional tardy execution in VFP5 (forms handling particularly) and from what I read here it is even slower in VFP6.

Peter