>So do I - thanks for your advice as well - I am trying building from the ground up again - it's just so frustrating when you come across these sorts of issues - I am sure everyone's been there...

Chris,
I thought I had a handle on this, when all of a sudden, my debugger twisted itself into a pretzel and Windows crashed. It was actually kinda neat. Anyway, things were just seeming like they were going to begin to click when that happened. In the debugger, in the mLaunchForm method, it compares the value of the forms array to cFormToOpen. The forms array's value was "frm_customers", the cFormToOpen value was "frm_ages". It didn't know how to handle that, I think. It was at about this moment it crashed on me. Anyway, I unfortunately have a bunch of work to do and probably won't be able to look at this until this afternoon at the earliest, but try taking a look at that. I SET STEP ON in the IF / ELSE / ENDIF statement that checks if it is a new form or a form to ZOOM NORM, and it never reached that point. Don't know if maybe I was doing something wrong, or not. If you get a chance to look at that, and come up with any more info, let me know. Talk to you in a few hours,
jfh


UPDATE
* ignore the above, my lack of sleep and playing with unfamiliar code caused this, sorry :) see my other reply for a kludgy fix.
jfh