>Geeeeee...
>When i first got the error i immediately changed to single quote, but it still failed...browsing through the history in my command window, i saw why...i used "sele " instead of "select " when i tried the single quote :-)
>Thanks!!
>If you have an idea for my main issue here, i'll be glad to have it...

If you're using ODBC, then the indexes *should* be updated correctly. Are these separate .IDX files? If they are, I don't know what the syntax is for SQLEXEC to be able to use those.