>The exe that I am trying to build contains classes that OLE Public, and therefore need to be registered in the Win Registry. The only way I know to register them is by building the exe, which you are saying is only allowed in design time VFP. Do you know of another way?

All out-of-process COM servers created by VFP can be registered by running the server with the /REGSERVER command line option; IOW, if your server executable is MYSERVER.EXE, you canregister it by issuing:

MYSERVER /REGSERVER