>Just tried that - with exactly the same result! Immediate bomb out. The form closes (losing any changes I've made up till then) and I'm back on the Project Manager screen.
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>The consensus seems to be that this quirk is something to do with my setup rather than vfp, so I'll troubleshoot it and possibly reinstall (again!)

You might try deleting the foxuser.dbf first...it may not help, but it solves some vfp configuration problems, and is much easier than the re-install. If that fails, then you should probably uninstall before reinstalling to get the full fresh setup -- or maybe you already know that...