>>It turns out the modals are completely innocent, it's only the popup that's causing the problem. The last lines of the popup are
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>>Activate Popup mypop
>>Clear Popups
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>>Must need something else there...
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>Are you sure about the CLEAR POPUPS, my shorcut menu doesn't have that. And the menus work OK if the form that's brought up with the shortcut menu isn't modal.

Are you testing in a full-fledged TL/MPR/EXE environment?

Anyway, thanks, removing CLEAR POPUPS does the trick. I forget why I added it, it was needed back in vfp5 to fix some problem. Now, I wish I'd documented why I added it...I know there was a reason...(scratching head)