>Nothing that really matters. I am doing other things with the table, such as setting a filter and pulling values out of it, but in the end shouldn't it close when I tell it to?

Yes, unless you have USEd it AGAIN, but that is not possible when you USE a table EXCLUSIVE. Try to add a line LIST STATUS TO FILE C:\MYSTATUS.TXT before the lase USE command, and analyse this file when the file is not closed.