>Looks like I got it fixed with your help! (Thanks to Erik for pointing me to this thread, too!) I'm using VisualFoxExpress so once you said _SCREEN I figured, why not This.oApplication? (which is also a member of _SCREEN) I put a reference .owwXML on that with an access method so it only gets created when I need it, get a local reference, call XMLToObject, release, close form, no more Unknown datasession! Thanks a ton!

You're welcome. Glad to be of some assistance and you've found at least one workaround.