>Looks like VFP may think that country 115 is a number and is adding the first digit from the code to that number so that;
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>m.country + m.code = 118 (115 + 3)
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>Try this and see if it helps;
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>seek(TRANSFORM(m.country) + TRANSFORM(m.code),"table","IDX")

Wouldn't seek()ing on a number in a character tag raise a "datatype mismatch" error?

BTW, a colleague of mine always read that as "datatype mishmash" :).