>Can you explain the class heirchy a little further?>
>You have a class called conCustom based on a container.
>Within the conCustom class is an object called cmdButton.
>You changed the conCustom.cmdButton.caption to "New".
>You put it on some forms.
>You went back later and changed the conCustom classes .cmdButton.caption = "something else".
>You opened and older form and conCustom.cmdButton.caption is still = "New".
>Is that correct?

Yes, that is correct, and a good simple example.

Dustin