>Thanks for the tip Charlie. I think you're correct. I remembered placing a path but I'll have to check. BTW, why does VFP "excluded" foxtools.fll from the project? Am I not correct in thinking that it is embedded in the exe?

It is not. FLL files don't get embedded - and I've forgotten why, but I remember there was a good technical reason.

The safest thing I've found so far is to distribute a copy of foxtools.fll to the directory where your .exe is - though it may be anywhere on the DOS path, it's safer to keep it on app's dir, in case more apps are installed, using different versions of VFP (and FoxTools).
The errors you may get if you run one version of runtime with a wrong version of foxtools may be very confusing and generally a waste of time.