>First, the error box that I get is titled E-Trap 2000. It gives a date (sort of 2.2004.511) then an error message (in this case program termsdescrip.prg does not exist), then what looks like the last select executed (this part doesn't look like it is part of what is causing the error), then an error number, file, and line number. Is this part of foxpro, or did someone program this into the application as part of an error trapping routine?

Sounds like there's error trapping built into the application. Look for an ON ERROR command and also look at the Error methods of the various objects.

Sounds like you'd be well advised to learn how to use the VFP Debugger, so you can figure out problems you're encountering, or at least narrow them down to where you can post just a few lines of code with the appropriate error message for us to look at. Help has some pretty good stuff on the Debugger. You also might consider buying Nancy Folsom's book "Debugging Visual FoxPro Applications."

Tamar