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

It was a restriction, IMO put in just so you'd have to upgrade whan a new VFP came out. Unfortunatly the upgrade is not available in the US. I did however just learn I can still use it, I just have to implement it in a different way.