David,
I'm not finding this to be the case. On my hard drive I have test data
where on th eserver I have zapped them out. The exe has 1 subdirectory
called data where the dbc and the dbf files exist. On my PC I am always finding the test data where my co-worker gets unable to locate the database. In the before open tables of the dataenvironment of the form I tried finding
the current work area (with mydefa= sys(5) + sys(2003) )and adding the code of this.cursor1.database = (mydefa).

I'm still not pointing to the currect dbc!!
What am I doing incorrectly?????

Sandy