>>Did you ever go to
>any of the Clipper Conferences that were held out
>at Palm Springs in the earl 90's?

No, My company, which I no longer work for, claimed that they
did not have any money. Same old story... But, today they have
a very weak programming shop, since they did not invest in the
continued education and development of staff... The only
conference I went to was the MS TechEd conference two years ago.
I plan to go next year also. They have great talks on a variety
of MS products other than VFP.