Bennett,

>I did exactly as you said and created a new config.fpw file with only the two following lines of code.
>
>TALK = OFF
>TITLE = SIMPLE CONFIG
>
>Some very interesting things happened.
>
>1st. The TALK = OFF generate the error "variable OFF not found".
> I ignored that (clicked the ignore button)
>
>2nd. Then I get a syntax error on the TITLE = SIMPLE CONFIG line of code.
> I ignored that (clicked the ignore button)
>

Points 1 and 2 are obviously being caused by "config.fpw" being run as a program and not just read as a config file.

>3rd. Even though I got the syntax error on the last (second) line of code,
> The title in the main VFP window was indeed "SIMPLE CONFIG" before it
> got to that that line of code. Wierd???

Not wierd at all. It shows that the config.fpw WAS correctly read as a config file. Something else is causing it to run as a program, causing the errors in 1 and 2.

>4th. Even though the first line of code generated an error, Talk was OFF.
> However this is probably the default setting.

No, ON is the default, so our new config is causing the change.

> This at least is encouraging.
> leading me to believe my original config.fpw file may be corrupted.

The only "corruption" you have is some code somewhere that causes config.fpw to be run as a program.