>Is there another way I can do this. I made a form converter in VFP6 that does something like...

Have you tried the ASelObj route?

>Another thing is this _SCREEN object. A few times I have been able to browse the screens properties like a form in the property window. I don't know how I got it to come up..How does this work?

You can click on the properties button on the Standard toolbar (between datasession and document viewer) or on teh windows menu. If there is no designer up at the moment, properties for the screen will be shown.