>>The nationalized version of WINXP on my AMD 750 does not show the problem. However, on my English version of Win2K on my P4 2Ghz, the error does occur.

Ok, thanks, Walter,
hope the error is just with oForm.Show and doesn´t crop up in nastier circumstances as a global array bug.

You may have seen that Sergey´s erring system is US En too, so - I dunno.

As long as I can circumvent it... I´ll switch on err handling. Shoulda been noticed by a MSie by now.
Thanks
G