>Hey Ed,
>
>I know you can answer this question:
>
>I'm finally puting a project into production - making a few test installs on Win2k and Win98 boxes. When I exit the exe on the Win2k box and look at the Task Manager, the program unloads and disappears from the Applications tab. However, the exe remains in the Processes tab about 50% of the time and under circumstances which are not consistent with anything I can find.
>
>There are no dangling references (got code to chack for that), no open connections to SQL Server, no nada.

Jeff, the most common cause I've founf for this is to release a form where another, still existing form, holds an object reference, so the form never quite de-instantiates (RELEASE never properly terminates) - the only fix I've found that cleans this up is to issue a quit, followed by issuing a couple of messy API calls:

DECLARE Sleep IN WIN32API INTEGER
DECLARE TerminateProcess IN WIN32API INTEGER, INTEGER
DELCLARE INTEGER GetCurrentProcess IN WIN32API
IF VERSION(2) = 0
   ON SHUTDOWN
   CLEAR EVENTS
   CLEAR ALL
   CLOSE ALL
   RELEASE ALL
   FLUSH
   QUIT
   =SLEEP(30000)
   =TerminateProcess(GetCurrentProcess(),0)
ELSE
   CANCEL
ENDIF

This can be a messy shutdown, so keep that in mind.