>Barbra, Eric, Ed, and Stacy
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>The culprit was in the wizard class (the form was created with the form wizard).
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>When I re-created the form and did not use the wizard the ghost dialog did not come up.
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>I would like to know, however, how do you keep code up the class heiarchy from executing? (In 10 words or less?! (ha))
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Add code to the instance of the control without DODEFAULT()

10 words. Don't applaud - just throw money.