Thanks for all your hard work in giving such a good explanation.

Now I have some better concept of what a dll is, and some nice easy
commands to manipulate it (ha ha).

What you show for VFP 6 looks more my speed, so I guess I will
upgrade, and take the risk that I will experience some of the
problems that other people mentioned.

At least, if the image files themselves seem to be giving me
a problem, I can used that dos based software from "small animals"
to clean up the image files.

I guess I will order VFP 6 upgrade from Hallogram. Is there some
special place I should go to get some sort of "service pack" to make
VFP 6 work correctly. It seems like I have seen people mention
something about SP3. Is it something that I purchase, or is it
a free download? Thanks!