Hi Erik,

>Why would you have a method that does any cleanup that is only called from ON SHUTDOWN? What happens when a user chooses Exit from the menu? Why should there be 2 different methods?

Beats me, I don't have the framework with me, but I think I call this method form the Quit Bar of my File Pad.

>This is different than every other MDI app out there. Open MS Word, open and modify several documents.

So, I don't do the same thing as Word, different scenarios (or not, I don't really think its important though). I look at it like a TRANSACTION and ROLLBACK, if something bombs, just leave it like you found it. Does that make sense (you can still disagree BTW :-)?