>>I have found that if you put something in a form's Picture property and then change your mind and remove it (so the property now shows [NONE]) that what is actually stored in the Properties field of the .scx is "Picture = ..\".
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>>When you try to open the form in the designer again, you will get an error "C:\ not found". You must hack into the .scx table and delete the Picture property line altogether or put a valid file name in the Picture property.
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>>Hope this saves someone's nerves from frying the way it fried mine! ;~)
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>Right-click on the property and select Reset to Default from the short cut menu.

Well, you learn something new every day (I guess I can go home now)! I never knew that "reset to default" was there. But then again -- it's only the Picture property I've had a problem with when the [NONE] shows in the properties sheet, and yet NONE is not exactly what's there ...