June,

I set deleted off in the command window. I opened up the debugger and set a break on SET('DELETED') and ran main. The break happens in the set method of aglobalenvironment.osessionenvironment. The default code of the addchildren method of the application object calls This.CreateGlobalEnvironmentObj(). I'd make sure you are doing a DODEFAULT in the addchildren method of your application object.

HTH

-Dan

>Where does MM default to deleted on? If I set deleted on at the command line, then call my form via createobject, and stop at a breakpoint in the form load method, deleted is already off there. If I step through the load routines, including the oSessionEnvironment Set method, deleted never goes back on.