>>>Tommy, were you getting the error on use (add/edit)? Or on the creation of the
>>>initial INDEX? I thought you were getting it occasionally on the INDEX ON
>>>command itself.
>>
>>The error would always occur on the line of code that would assign the value
>>of 5 to 'status' of the new record in ss_io.
>
>
>So the SET value of CENTURY at that point differed from the value when the INDEX was created?


No, the same. SET CENTURY ON and SET STRICTDATE TO 0, in the old and new code