>Even on my top level forms where there is no visible _Screen, the object still persists. You spoke of "turning off the screen", what precisely do you mean?

The SCREEN=OFF line in CONFIG.FPW.
You're right, the _screen is still there and an object, there's no getting rid of it.

>_Screen has 163 PEM's and requires no overhead to create / maintain / destroy. My adding another property doesn't seem catastrophic.

No, it's not. But something still feels "funny" about it from an OOP standpoint.
But what the heck, if it works, it works!