>Your EXE will use the config.fpw it's local to. When in the development environment, your programs use the config.fpw in the HOME() directory.
>HTH

Thanks, Terry. However, I am building the config.fpw into the EXE to prevent deletion or tampering. As Mike suggested, the problem turned out to be the contents of the file, rather than the location. (I was following an erroneous example from the documentation, which I cited previously.)