Jingles,
Well, after about 2 hours last night I decided just to re-create my stage. The same basic stage saves as 1.7 MB now. Not as small as it used to be, but still much better.
I am still curious as to what was causing the size increase. Hopefully it stays manageable, but I will definitely let you know if it gets out of hand again.
Thanks to you and John for your help! Thanks for the tip on the INIT...will do.
Brian