>To follow up on this problem...
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>I have two copies of VFP 7, one with my MSDN subscription, and a separate copy that I purchased. I had only tried installing from my purchased copy (and on two different machines). Today I tried from the MSDN copy, and that one works fine. Apparently, there's something corrupted on the disk I purchased.

Arrrgh! Talk about frustration! And to think you had to format your drive to figure this out! Who said computers make your life easier?