>I would like to create a splash screen in VFP6 without the caption box on top. Is there any way to do this? Ideally, I would like the splash screen to be an odd shape, not square or rectangular. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

The first one is simple. Set TitleBar property of the form to 0=Off.

See faq#8000 and file#9767 for how to create form in Non-Rectangular shape.