>>Mike,
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>>I'm using Windows NT 4.0 WorkStation & I've got Visual Studio 6.0 with Service Pack 3 & 4 loaded. Visual FoxPro 6.0 is included as part of Studio & the Help file location points to the FoxHelp.chm in my MSDN 98\1033 directory.
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>>I've only noticed this behaviour this week.
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>It's not SP4 that does this; all systems tested have SP4 on them here. I'm pretty much convinced it's an IE option in the registry, or a change in browser behavior between 5.0 and 5.5

I went and installed 5.5 and the latest set of Critical Updates to the laptop, and that didn't change the Help behavior, so it's either a registry setting, a new help component that was installed with the August TechNet (the only non-preview MS thing that isn't installed on the laptop), or something that I loaded as a part of something like the PDC .Net preview stuff. There is definitely a different version of the HHCTRL.OCX on the systems that always pull Help to the topmost window when activated; I'm just not sure what put it out to my development boxes and not to the laptop. It did not get installed by the VS SP4 or IE 5.5, but there are plenty of other things that might've done this.

I'd hunt around the IE configuration stuff and TweakUI, there's probably a check box or radio button one of them that sets the behavior.