John,

FWIW, I decided early on that I wasn't going to use the RowSource property for SQL, I despise editing SQL commands in a one line display on the property sheet and making sure I didn't have to worry about the 254 property size limit. I added a SQL() abstract method to my cbo and lst subclasses.

>Thanks, David. It would seem to be a cardinal rule that if one is going to run SQL from within an object, that the code should be preferably wrapped in a method of that object.