>Ya, I thought of that right after I posted.
>Sometimes, one gets so wound up in making
>something work one way, that we overlook other
>ways, huh? (g)

sometimes it is even worse - when u overlook the obvious
and than "discover" it after staring at a problem for a long long time

>If I can't sort by dates, what good
>is a data type, right?

but this is exactly what DTOS [or DTOC(date,1)] is for
and it accepts datetime expressions as well

Arnon