Tom,
This is a good reason for keeping an up-to-date copy of your GenDBC (or GenDBCX) file in a safe place. You can copy the data for the 'bad' table to an SDF file, delete it from the DBC and recreate it with the appropriate section of the GenDBC file. A simple append does the rest, and long field names and captions are preserved.

Barbara

>The above VALIDATE DATABASE RECOVER did help to some extent.
>It made the DBC valid, but the table was still giving me
>an error about the index even though I deleted it from Explorer.
>
>The solution was to copy the table to another directory (my D
>drive) and USE it there as a free table. Once I could do this,
>I deleted the table on the server and copied the table from
>my D drive. I then added it back to the DBC and am now in the
>process of reindexing. Sure am glad I don't use long field
>names otherwise I would need to make sure I had the correct
>ones else I could have problems with my programs that reference
>this free then DBC table...
>
>Life is good again. Thanks all for your replies...
>
>Tom Bellmer