>What exactly was the error message? I'm sure you have paraphrased it! *grin*

A windows error box would say: "Data Environment is already uloaded. Method: yarn.dataenvironment.CloseTables Line: 0"

Then,

"Error Loading file - record number 39. GRDSYS#H .ControlSource: Alias is not found

BUT

I did figure it out, with your help. I call OpenTable in the form's load method and it now opens the tables that I want, and only them. Part of it, was my mistake in not doing a "select 0" to get a new work area...the other part might ahve been expecting OpenTables to open automatically if AutoOpenTables = .f.

thanks again.