contructor not allocating array properly?

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This is a weird one... not sure why this is happening.

In my .h, in my class, in the public section, I have the following:

  CButton* useme;

in my class constructor, I have:

  useme = new CButton[MAX_WARP_TYPES];

later in my program, I have:

void myClass::createScreenConfig(CString path,int num)
{
   // ....

  useme[0].Create(_T(""),WS_CHILD|WS_VISIBLE|BS_CHECKBOX,
		  CRect(rect.left+leftSpace, rect.top+topAdjust+fieldHeight*0,rect.right-3,rect.top+30),
	          this,1500);

}

but this causes the following assert from wincore.cpp to fail:
ASSERT(pWnd->m_hWnd == NULL); // only do once

However, if I put the "useme = new CButton[MAX_WARP_TYPES];"

right in the function, it works correctly. What's going on?