>I owuld be really surprised if this made a difference, and if it did, it would tell me that there was a problem with the link between the table and the dbc. The table should automatically open and update the dbc when it is opened and modified.

Agree, no difference -- but I had the same thing occur yesterday, in code that has been reliable in the past. I'm suspecting there may have been a network problem with the user, perhaps, that interfered for a split second between the indexing and the writing of the the new record to the DBC...only thing I can think of...