>I'm a relative novice-
>could you expand...
>Since I don't know how the read and clear events applies to this situation I'm assuming this is probably my problem.

After your do form command, place a read events command.

Then in your shutdown routine (or your quit button, or the forms queryunload event) place a clear events statment. Do you have the VFP Docs? If you do, you can learn alot by looking up read events.

Good luck!