>>Create a new project. Add only the bad form to it, and test the problem, just to be sure it's the scx that's rotten and not the project...
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>OK, it was something in the project ... I can now bring up the form from the project many times with no problems. It is still, however, crashing and burning at runtime. Looks like I have more than a few things wrong with this. Hmmmm ... well, I'm debugging now ... we'll see what happens

Okay, a third possibility is they were both rotten. < s > Well, one step at a time...