>...if you use ERROR 2005 from the Command window, you get an empty error dialog.

Ha! Now that is a helpful! < bg > The actual error message stuffed into the MB for my testing is:

Error loading file - record number 3.  frmMain < or one of its members >.
Parent : Class library file 'd:\devapps\uicora\_base.vcx' is not found

Which is what I expected, but I would still like to be able to trap that.

Thanks for the confirmation.