John,

Use a FILE() call to verify the existence of the file in the Load() and return .f. if it doesn't exist this will prevent your form from instantiating at all.

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>That helped me understand... Now I get things to shut down after only two errors.. The cause of the error is a missing table but what I am trying to do is a gracefull exit instead of generating 25 errors because of a missing or crapped out table...
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>I added some code to show the line and for some reason it does not bail out until after the second error that is 4 lines down in the code...