Wow. thanks. I went and replaced all the related variables with "new"... however... i currently use this definition of shapes:
Public Shapes() as shape

and later i ReDim it and initialize the shapes in it, problem is: "Can't use new on arrays"
and my question is: What can i do? Is by any chance your example of "datasets"(never heard of them) is the answer?

Thank you very very much!