my suspect too what that the code should be harmless...it's been there for the last 7 years (we try not to change too much on the code as we have limited tech resources on lotus notes, and even i am a beginner at best)...
anyways, the form does a repost... where the seq=2 maybe a flag to execute the agent... (i am not sure about this as i had the impression that this may be just the way a lotus notes form works)...
anyhow, this issue has been resolved already... with no other options left, we rebooted the server. and after the reboot the system seemed to function as expected...
i am not really sure how that issue occurred but then again, since it's been resolved by rebooting.. i'll just leave it at that...
Thank you all for the help...