>1. select the textbox in the properties list
>2. click the titlebar on the form I am modifying
>3. click the delete key, nothing happens
>can someone please help, my brain has almost stopped

Hmm, of the top of my head, thats how I do it. Check the properties list to make sure you don't have many Textboxes, also, is maybe possible that if you are deleteing the last control in there, a new one is auotmattically added every time the last one is removed.