>hi ! Bruce,
>
>the only activex control is MSCAL.ocx which is the calendar control
>provided by VFP5. There's another dll from FOCUS kernel.dll.
>This problem occurs not when i execute the calendar control,
>it can be anytime and anywhere. Usually it occurs three times
>a week.

Hmmm...could be a dangling reference, too...can you get the crash when you run the exe inside vfp? It's difficult to debug, otherwise...