>>Because the form will not form will not release if any of its child objects has an external reference. So instead of using a true VFP object reference the child object is referenced be name and then dereferenced via a with/endwith statement. Hope this Clarifies
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>This is a known bug in 5 now fixed in 5.0a.

That's funny because I am running 5.0a and still have this problem.