Hi wp,
Apologies for the tardy reply. Been getting some last minute things ready for an imminent trip.
At this moment i can only give you a quick reply.
I did originally copy the lip and lpr files but that didn't work. I'm sure where i went wrong, after simply doing project "save as.." in another folder, Lazarus wouldn't run the project and kept giving me errors (sorry, i don;t remember which at that time). I ended up editing files looking for the cause and i could never get it right (ie: project wouldn't compile as a new project, always falling back to the old project). Finally, i created a new folder for th e updated project, went tothe original folder and did "project save as..." to the new folder, saved the .pas files o the new folder under different names, and used the project inspector to add the new .pas files to the new project. I had to also modify the .lpr file to insert the missing non-primary forms (dialogs) since they were missing. All in all, it was obviously a series of my own screw-ups that garbled the project files, since this was the first Lazarus project i have worked on and i am still unfamiliar with the IDE tools.
In short: culpa mia est...
I am leaving day after tomorrow, so i will have to wait until i get back to see if i can send you the old files you requested.
Thanks very much again. Your help is really appreciated.