Well am I ever having fun.

All my applications have a directory structure thus:
ROOT -
apics
bcde
dbfs
docus
forms
menus
othr
picts
progs
quers
repts
system
tmpfiles

As above structure suggests - Menus are in menus, Forms are in forms etc.

Now to the problem...
I store the application pictures in apics.
So to map a picture in a menu in the menus directory.. the file path will be
..\apics\somepict.ico
That works great except:
1. On rhe build of the project, the menus get generated in the root
directory.. not in the menus directory?? Any ideas?
2. Picture files compile ok the first time, however when I open the menu a
second time, for editing, the following occurs.
Some picture files are changed from file to resource, and worse than that
the path changes to ..\..\apics\somepict.ico (extra '..\')
The next time it opens the path changes to ..\..\..\apics\somepict,ico.
(i.e. it seems to be adding an extra '..\' to each path, I have only seen it
go three deep, ..\..\..\apics\somepict.ico.)
This occurs every build, however not to all menu items. This is the wierd
part. Some menu items stay the same, some change as above. Also, I have
tried absolute pathing to the picture, to see if this helps. Again the menu
upon reopening, does the above. (i.e. changes the path to
..\apics\somepict.ico) Then the pattern repeats as above. Why would some not
change and then others change? The common thread is the ones that change are
changed to resource where the others stay picture. Why would some change to
resource?

Now is there a setting that I am missing in VFP configuration?
Is there an issue with the menu generator and pictures?
Or is it something more sinister, a bug in VFP? (Say it isn't so <bg>)

Thanks in advance,
Mike