>Ken,

>Have you tried setting the RecordSource property from code?

Yep, sure have...that's how I found this ungrade. I was doing what I had done in 5.0, which was attempt to stick a concatenation of several small pieces of the whole SELECT statement into the record source and it kept failing.

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>>I found it by going to the record source and typing 12345678901234567892 etc. Sucker froze at 255!