>SELECT Customer.CustomerID, Customer.CustName, Orders.OrderID, ;
>		Orders.OrderDate, Orders.Destination ;
>	FROM Customer ;
>		INNER JOIN orders ON Orders.CustomerID = Customer.CustomerID ;
>	AND OrderDate = ( SELECT MAX(OrderDate) FROM Orders Recent WHERE Recent.CustomerID = Orders.CustomerID)

This gives me a different error - "SQL: Subquery nesting is too deep." Error 1842. Is this something that was improved with VFP 9?

>

>SELECT Customer.CustomerID, Customer.CustName, Orders.OrderID, ;
>		Orders.OrderDate, Orders.Destination ;
>	FROM Customer ;
>		INNER JOIN orders ON Orders.CustomerID = Customer.CustomerID ;
>	WHERE OrderDate = ( SELECT MAX(OrderDate) FROM Orders Recent WHERE Recent.CustomerID = Orders.CustomerID) 
>UNION
>SELECT Customer.CustomerID, Customer.CustName, Orders.OrderID, ;
>		Orders.OrderDate, Orders.Destination ;
>	FROM Customer ;
>		LEFT JOIN orders ON Orders.CustomerID = Customer.CustomerID  where orders.OrderID IS NULL

This works, but will be annoying to maintain - I may have to go back to the three step process to keep my sanity.