>the client's customers don't like pageframes!!!

My sympathies. When used correctly, they're quite effective. Of course, you could use tabless pageframes and programmatically switch the tabs before the form's displayed.< bg >

>Overall, the layout is quite good. It has one of the best, well defined sets of business logic I have ever seen outside of NASA manned spaceflight group.

Well that's one piece of good news. Sounds like you should be able to leverage a good bit of existing code.