>1. Don't know if I agree with that - mainly because I fall squarely in #2 camp, having used VFP5 debugger maybe 4 or 5 times in over 2 years. WAIT WINDOWs seem to be all I need. The majority of non-trivial bugs I encounter in my apps are MSKB material.

In this case... use the debugger all the time. First, it's much better and easier than WAIT WINDOWs. You'll be convinced of this when you'll really use it!

Second, you'll find much more bugs in your code (before your clients do). Especially the non-trivial ones.

One old and golden programming advice says: "Trace (in the debugger) all your program paths." I know that this is something that almost nobody does, but, from my experience, once you traced at least all the important paths, the code is already much improved. And it's surely less buggy.

Vlad