>Dragan --
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>However, as I noted, I specifically don't want an object reference. What I want is to make a copy of all the values in the collection so that later I can compare those values to the current values. Saving an object reference ... means the two are always identical.

If copy is what you want, I don't see much wrong with your code, except not using .item(n) on the this.fields to get a member; this way of default method (i.e. if you pass n to the collection itself, it actually calls collection.item(n)) just looks too VB to me. May work with Fox collections, too, but I always reference collection.item(n), just to be clear that this is a collection, not a function name.

Other than that, it should work; what fixes I inserted aren't really fixes, simply more to ease the debugging if it doesn't work.