Running an EXE on Win2K SP2 built wih VFP7 SP1.

The main program starts a LOGIN form which is removed after a successful login, displaying the "main" form.

LOGIN form has:
.AlwaysOnTop = T
.AutoCenter = T
.ShowInTaskBar = T
.ShowWindow = 2, as top level form
.WindowType = 0, modeless
and Application.Visible is set to F in its init()

The "main" form is actually a set of 2 forms:
The 'mother' form has:
.AlwaysOnTop = F
.AutoCenter = F
.ShowInTaskBar = T
.ShowWindow = 2, as top level form
.WindowType = 0, modeless
and Application.Visible is set to F in its init(). It also starts its 'child' form.

The "child" form has:
.AlwaysOnTop = F
.AutoCenter = F
.Closeable = F
.ShowInTaskBar = T
.ShowWindow = 2, as top level form
.WindowType = 0, modeless

The 'main' form has a button that starts a "Finder" form when clicked.
The "finder" form has:
.AlwaysOnTop = F
.AutoCenter = T
.Closeable = T
.ShowInTaskBar = F
.ShowWindow = 1, in top level form
.WindowType = 1, modal
and in some cases a specification on that form can cause a BROWSE window to be displayed IN WINDOW 'main' (the main window described above).

The 'main' form also has a button that starts a "TypeChange" form when clicked.
The "typechange" form has:
.AlwaysOnTop = F
.AutoCenter = T
.Closeable = T
.ShowInTaskBar = F
.ShowWindow = 1, in top level form
.WindowType = 1, modal

Whenever I test this as an EXE it leaves itself active as a "process", discoverable by the fact that a new EXE cannot be built because of a sharing violation. Once I manually stop the process I can build the EXE again.

The question: What do I have to do to make the thing STOP rather than 'continuing' as a "process"?

LATE-BREAKING NEWS: I have just found that commenting the Application.Visible = .F. lets it terminate cleanly (not continuing as a proess).

Question revised: How can I have an application run on the OS desktop (not the VFP desktop) yet have it terminate cleanly?

thanks in advance
Jim Nelson