I have a form with a grid showing the child side of a one-to-many
relationship. The first column contains a drop-down combo displaying
products. The products in the list is dependent on the user level,
determined at login. I have populated the list in a variety of ways: first
with SQL, then with a table. When I use an ordered by clause (with SQL) or
set an order (with a table), I get a variety of errors, often kicking the
user out of VFP entirely.

The most common error message is "Variable 'GRIDLINES' not found." Gridlines
is not my variable; it's obviously a basic grid property, which I never
access.

The project was originally created in VFP 3.0, where it worked fine, and was
converted to VFP 5.0 three weeks ago -- and has not worked properly since. I
have rebuilt the form, rebuilt the data container and all tables. Nothing
has worked. The error has occured over many machines.

Microsoft has no answer. They believe it is corruption, but I'm beginning to
think it's a fundamental flaw of VFP.

Has anyone else experience this? Any solutions? If so, PLEASE e-mail me at
anderson.david@usa.net.

Thanks!