>>hmmm....maybe i should have done this before ...
>>I deleted *.bak, *.frp, *.exe ( in application dir and it's subs ) and the
>>problem when away.
>>

Maybe one of the EXE's you deleted was THE older EXE you were running in error.

>>( interesting how fox was using a bakup files for compiling and not the main
>>files ;O) )
>
>No, it wasn't. It might have been failing to compile the .prgs, but it wasn't compiling the .baks.