>How about this as a solution. Make a small vfp exe, named myvfp.exe, whose only task is to poll the directory that my users are uploading into.

Thats what I do for an awful lot of tasks. Works well, there's really no major reason to turn it into a service though. Unless, not having to login or start and stop it manually is a priority, you could just leave it as an EXE with a timer object running.