Joe,

>I am glad to hear that...at least I know I am not crazy!

You don't know if I am!

>OK...maybe instead of worrying about the children of this form I need to see how I am instantiating it and make sure I am not leaving anything hanging around...

Maybe You have an object that has another attached to it as a property.
When destroying the parent. Some rest of the "child" might be
still there.

In theese cases see, if You have something like

This.o_ChildObject = .Null.

in the destroy of the parent object.

>
>Sounds interesting...I hopefully will not have to go as far as this type of scheme, at least I hope not. All my other forms behave fine, and the problem form is even OK except for certain scenarios (which I am proceeding to isolate to try to debug).
>

I am doing this only with OCX and thelike

...thanks for the response!

Let me know, if I can be of any more help