>yup. Thanks.
Also, you should not even try to PACK every time you delete a record. That would make everything much too slow. PACK should be done in a weekly or monthly maintenance job.
Difference in opinions hath cost many millions of lives: for instance, whether flesh be bread, or bread be flesh; whether whistling be a vice or a virtue; whether it be better to kiss a post, or throw it into the fire... (from Gulliver's Travels)