>I guess basically what I have in (2) and (3) and (4) could go right after his "Regasm /codebase DotNetCom.dll" text, which is what I am doing in my (1). What's great about Rick's article is that he fills in the "why" when I had barely figured out the "how" (grin).

I suggest you also read two other great articles on this topic:

CoDe Magazine:
COM Interop in Visual Studio .NET by John V. Petersen
http://www.devx.com/codemag/articles/2002/March/cominterop/cominterop-1.asp

April 2002 issue of UT Magazine:
Using .NET classes in Visual FoxPro by Pablo Pioli
http://www.levelextreme.com/Magazine/April2002/