>SNIP... Unfortunatly we are not able to upgrade our application to VFP7 as we are using a third party library that won't load in VFP7.
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SNIP

Is the problem a restriction of the third-party software or does it appear to be a bug in VFP7?

If a bug, has it been reported? Here for help is probably better than to MS, but some say to MS also helps the cause.