Whew! Glad that is resolved. I would also liked to have been able to figure out what the problem was, but I think we thoroughly exhausted all possibilities befer resorting to a reinstall.

>Since re-installing MSDN was what I tried before asking the UT, I squashed my install of VFP and reinstalled everything from scratch. After re-installing MSDN then and then the SP4, it now all works ok. It would have been nice to truly figure out what it was, but - hey this fixed it. Now on to re-setting my default configurations...
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>Thanks to all for your suggestions in this problem. I've been a member of the UT since '98 but never posted a question before now. (usually my problems either have already have posts or I didn't know what I was really wanting to ask.) I'll have to stop being a lurker. Maybe now I'll get off my duff and get my photo on this too.