>Scott,
>What if you put a little wait window statment before you fire messagebox() so the user is aware that it might not show, at least then it might prompt them to have a look around and see what is happeneing. Another Idea might be to creat a window for the messagebox() to display in, and make it top level.

Thanks for the suggestions, Iain. I tried putting a WAIT window up, but it was hiding behind the form as well for some reason. Not sure how you'd go about getting the messagebox to display in another window. In any case, Will provided a solution that seems to work okay.

Thanks,
Scott