As I mentioned in my earlier post, you should contact Microsoft support as before, and let us get this nailed down for you.

That way we can find unequivocally what is happening.

>There is one slight twist to this. I am using Visual ProMatrix. I tried passing -a -c to the VPM.EXE that is executed and I also tried setting RESOURCE OFF, but didn't help.
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>I tried running VFP8.EXE without the -a -c, I created a little PRG that had a syntax error in it, I opened the debugger and couldn't get it to crash. So, I don't know if my crash is related to the fact that VPM spawns off VFP...