Paul,
Why don't you just set ShowToolTips = .t. in your lowest level form class, you do have one of those right?) and it'll solve the problem forever.
>Can you add some info to the docs regarding enabling ToolTips (if there is one already, I haven't been able to find it)? This one gets me everytime I start a new project - I can never remember how the heck to turn them on and have to dig through the code to find it.