>Well, it would have been nice for MSFT to tell me.

Actually, they did. On the VFP 7 CD, there is a directory for technical articles. One of them shows you what merge modules need to be selected to deploy a VFP 7 application. It's called vfpdeploy.doc. Mike Stewart from MS wrote it.

Jim Saunders from MS posted a message about a utility from MS you can get to view the contents of merge modules. It's called Orca and you can find on MS site here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/downloads/default.asp?url=/downloads/sample.asp?url=/msdn-files/027/001/530/msdncompositedoc.xml. You can use it in conjunction with the deployment document to find out exactly what files InstallShield Express installs. You can then copy thoses files manually into your target directory.

>What language is VFP 5 and VFP 6 written in?

They were both written using Visual C++; however, I don't remember if the VFP versions corresponded to the VC++ versions. VC++ 7 is new so the run-time doesn't exist on systems as of yet. Since VS.NET has been released and VC++ 7 is part of that, it is only a matter of time before the run-time gets propagated.