>When it [a table is] out of sync with the DBC, it presents a dialog with two options: "cancel" (which I refer to as the "leave me hosed" option) and "delete" (which I like to call the "hose me worse than I already am" option).

Snicker. Chuckle. Snort! GUFFAW! I'm going to start a replacement MessageBox class with these buttons as options...

>OK, that's a long lead-in for the real solution <g>: use Stonefield Database Toolkit (SDT) to handle this. It will read the physical structure of the table, compare it to the structure as defined in the DBC and some other meta data, and if the two are out of sync, will modify the table structure to match the correct definition.
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>SDT will do other things, too: recreate corrupted indexes, repair corrupted table and memo headers, and lots of other database management tasks. For more information on SDT, check out the Stonefield Web site.

Did you forget to wrap this in some sort of "shameless self promotion" disclaimer?

:)
Rich.