>The point is that I feel strongly that I should not have to rewrite almost all of the forms in the application.
You are not alone on this one <g>.
>I think this is a bug.
me too...
>It works up to VFP 8, why the sudden change in behavoir?

Since vfp9 isn't released yet, there is a good chance it will be fixed. If you know somebody in the beta test, you might visit and check on a later build: perhaps it already is fixed. Still, that means no testing with the open beta...

regards

thomas