YES! YES! YES! (SCREEN=OFF in config.fpw)

OH thank you...SO SIMPLE and so obvious and so time consuming!

Have a hapy turkey day, Erik, you've saved me again.

>>I think the problem lies with the DO...WHILE loop. If you recode something like this:
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>>do form MainForm
>>read events
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>>You will exit the event loop by a menu selection or interface object firing the clear events code.
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>Jill's READ EVENTS loop is fine. It's actually a very graceful way to handle program shutdown. I implement something very similar.
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>Jill- is it possible that you have your forms set to show "In-SCreen" and you have made your _SCREEN object invisible with SCREEN=OFF in config.fpw, or with _SCREEN.Visible = .F.?