I hope the problem with the "white out" has been fixed. I mean the one where, after a good bit of editing, the tool bar fades and the program locks. Exiting the program and returning fixes it. I have not experienced any problem with normal operating. No loss of data. Mostly, it is when there is more than one database open. We had this problem in Version 8 also. I mean after the patches. And on more than one computer. With Windows 98 and Windows ME. With 128 memory and plenty of room on the hard drive. I know others have had this problem also. I hate to bring this up too often, because, even with the problem, FO is still my program. It was a little scarry at first and now it is just annoying. Betty