>Blanking out the field didn't work, so I took my back up copy and just compiled it like it was. Magically I could open it in the form designer and the code was there. Thanks for jump=starting my brain. Now I have to find another way to appear busy this grand Friday.

That was the purpose of making a backup copy of the bad form - so once you get it to work, you can spend the rest of the day analyzing the copy, figuring out what went wrong :)