John

>Here is the code in my main.prg that calls the main for and issues READ EVENTS

Your main looks fine.

>All other forms are being called with DO FORM someformname. The forms worked fine as modal, but changing them to modeless makes them go out of scope somehow.
>BTW - not sure if this matters, but all of my forms are set to showwindow = 0, even the main form. The main form has always been modeless so I can manage things with my mainmenu system.

It's got to be something in the code launching the other forms, or your forms might be returning .f. from the init so they don't really launch. Post the chunk of code you use to launch the form and what object.method are you using?

As an experiment, create just two forms FormA and FormB, both modeless, In Screen. In the FormA.Click() method put do form formb everytime you click the first form you should fire up another instance of the FormB