There is no attempt to point at any record.  I rarely use bound forms
anyway, but that's a side issue.

There should be 3 forms visible, just sitting there, ready for the user to
do something on one of them.  (One of them actually closes itself on a timer
after 20 seconds.)

Sadly, the problem does not occur when starting the MDB from the script, so
following the code throught the opening sequence is pointless, since the
problem does not appear.

It seems so odd that the form names show up on my task bar, exactly as they
should.  They seem to be open.  They're just not visible, and there are no
scroll bars to get to them, and there's not code setting them invisible.
And if there were, there are no menus available period, so I couldn't unhide
a form even if that were the problem.

This one I don't get.

OK.  Got the answer, sort of.  I know the code it's related to, and I know
that it has something to do with timing, and that's probably as far as I'll
chase it.

It all started when I moved this line of code:

   Call MaximizeApplicationIfNotAlready

That line of code was previously called only in two places, activated when
the user's mouse moved over an area on a form.  I was so convinced that
moving and positioning forms (which I also added) and maximizing a window
were such vanilla, absolutely uninteresting actions that I sort of
overlooked them in my mental checklist.  Looks like I'm learning this
lesson, yet again:  Never, ever overlook anything.

I inserted that line additionally into my opening stream of code.  That's
what caused the problem.  My startup form does some login validation and
link checking, then it opens 3 forms.  I was thinking that I might go ahead
and maximize after opening the forms.  Wrong.  I could not find any place in
that stream of activity that I could leave that line of code and wind up
with forms visible when the application opened.

I yield to the intransigence of the immutable unknown, so I removed the line
and copied it to the MouseMove event of the detail section of the 4 forms
that could possibly wind up open, depending on user preference settings.

Works like a charm.

For those who care, the functions invoked by the offending line are shown
below.

I guess that in programming, as in comedy, timing is everything.

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Public Function MaximizeApplicationIfNotAlready()

   If IsAccessMaximized = False Then
       Call AccessMaximize
   End If

End Function

Function IsAccessMaximized() As Boolean
   If apiIsZoomed(GetAccesshWnd()) = 0 Then
       IsAccessMaximized = False
   Else
       IsAccessMaximized = True
   End If
End Function

Function AccessMaximize()
   AccessMaximize = apiShowWindow(GetAccesshWnd(), SW_MAXIMIZE)
End Function

Declare Function apiIsZoomed Lib "user32" Alias "IsZoomed" (ByVal Hwnd As
Long) As Long
Declare Function apiShowWindow Lib "user32" Alias "ShowWindow" (ByVal Hwnd
As Long, ByVal nCmdShow As Long) As Long