Hi Ron,
I haven't taken in all of the details of the replies to you, but this is my take on the prob. According to the MSDN help files:

"The Show method sets a form or form set's Visible property to true (.T.) and makes the form the active object. If a form's Visible property is already set to true (.T.), the Show method makes it the active object."

So pretty clearly what is happening is that your 1st 2 wait windows are referring to whatever "THISFORM" is before you create your new FORM object. Your property is set to .f. on that form. However, after the .SHOW(1) is executed, this new form becomes your active form and aparently that property defaults to .t., is that correct? If so, you will have to use a reference to your original form to continue accessing properties or methods of that original form.

Hope this is somewhat helpful.