>>>At this point, I'm just trying to find something that will allow users to select a specific person, short of just browsing the cursor
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>>I repeat my recommendation to change the select statement itself, see my earlier reply. Your Where condition is "dangerous", I don't understand why you stick to it.
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>ok, I'm not understanding what is 'dangerous' of
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>WHERE Padr(Upper(Lastname),25)+ Padr(Upper(Firstname),25) = Padr(Upper(lname),25) + Padr(Upper(fname),25)
>and !Inactive

Now you have changed the expression from the one I originally answered to. Anyway, it's a "stupid" expression in my mind. What's wrong with
Where Upper(Lastname) = Upper(lname) and Upper(Firstname) = Upper(fname) and !Inactive?
Just make sure that the lengths of the compared strings are equal.