>I deleted the .fxp's for the reports in question and ran the actual exe (without .fxp) and worked fine. I am usinf VFP6 SP5.
That may work in your tests, but it defeats the purpose of distributing the report program without recompiling.
You have to take the file out of the EXE, to force VFP to run the separate file.
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