Mike,
I tried what you suggested and it works great:

From the calling program:

Dim frmAuditBatch As New auditbatch(Me)
frmAuditBatch.Show()

and in the called program:

Public Sub New(ByVal sender As System.Object)
and then refer to sender.var1, sender,var2, etc.


Or
Dim frmAuditBatch As New auditbatch(var1,var2,etc)


and in the called program:

Public Sub New(ByVal Var1 as integer, etc)


Thanks!