After your suggestion, I raised it incrementally all the way to 9.0 with
no joy. I also tried some other things, did the "revert text" and
"revert events", no go. I also created a new "hidden" field and it also
printed anyway, so my memory of that working was incorrect. So far, the
only way to make this work is to start form scratch, which I am not even
contemplating! I can start a new form from scratch and the hidden fields
do not print, but adding a hidden field to this form doesn't work.