Edward,

No, my colors aren't the problem. If that were the case I would see anything in the field to begin with, and I CAN see whatever value happens to already be in the field.

Here's another clue...
This form was formerly coming up BLANK. I'm talking no control, fields, boxes or ANYTHING visible...However, when I clicked on the place where my CANCEL button should have been - it worked!

I noticed that simply by putting a WAIT WINDOW "xxx" TIMEOUT .5 in my ACTIVATE code, I am now able to see everything that is on the screen, BUT cannot "see" radio button changes or characters entered into fields (even though the values are saved when I exit the screen with a TABLEUPDATE)

Don't give up on me yet!

thanx,
Joe