>>>You are correct, this is the audit log. The table being audited has buffering set to 3, as do all of the buffered tables.
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>>I think I've exhausted my telepathic capabilities with this :). IOW, I've run out of clues. Event and coverage logging maybe?
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>Thanks to all of you who pondered this question. As it turns out the problem was not with buffering at all. The VFP error message was totally misleading. The problem was with the INSERT command which had some errors in the data types that were being inserted.

Hey, at least we had an interesting mystery to do some mental pushups with.

>My apologies for the unanswerable question. Hopefully MS will provide better clues in the future.

I'm not holding my breath.