Hi guys,
Thanks for showing intrest in my question.

regards,
--sarath.

Pls find the debugging comments inline with the code:

dlsDownloadXrefFile::dlsDownloadXrefFile(CMainFrame* p) : dlsmState(p)
{
    init = false;
    pSearchFirmwareDlg = NULL;
    m_user = "";
    m_password = "";
    pAbortRequested = new bool(false); //crashes here and goes

//to the ~dlsmState
}

dlsDownloadXrefFile::~dlsDownloadXrefFile()
{
    stopSearchDlg();  //safety code - kill any existing
    if ( pAbortRequested )
        delete pAbortRequested;
}

where,
dlsmState::dlsmState(CMainFrame* p) : pMainFrame(p)
{
    bInit = false;
}

dlsmState::~dlsmState()
{//After the "break, continue" exception
//dialog box the debbugger jumps to this destructor
//the stack trace shows all msvcr71d.dll:function_names
// before this ~dlsmState
}