>I switched to VFP 7 and did a Type To Print GetAKey.PRG successfully to check out the current printer. Than I switched to a different default shared printer and tried Modify Report again and got the error again. Taken together these facts seem to contra-indicate the bad printer driver theory.

Randy,

I use VFP9 Report Designer daily and don't have such problem. Did you install Visual FoxPro 9.0 Beta Component Refresh http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=19329f2e-d806-4c4f-ac41-9b58be3c8f4c&displaylang=en ?