Hello Nadya,

>I was going to give you the same advice, as Sergey, but are you sure, it's a label and not a textbox? According to my knowledge, labels don't have focus...

I'm absolutely positively sure that all three labels are labels, and are not textboxes. I just triple checked to be sure. Furthermore the form is WindowType=0 modeless, and AlwaysOnTop=.T., and ShowWindow=2 as Top-Level Form, and TabStop=.F..
Here's the calling code:

SET CURSOR OFF
DO FORM pmsplash NAME splash LINKED
* more setup stuff here
WAIT "" TIMEOUT 2   && This is probably the offending line that caused the cursor...
RELEASE splash
SET CURSOR ON

I'm satisfied with the way it's working now, although I guess a timer on the form would have been better OOP (or POOP if you prefer ;-). Thanks for your comments.