BINGO...thanks....I'm not at a machine with 2.6 installed (nor VFP for that matter but at least I have more VFP memorized).

>Who knows? It's taking chances to get in troubles.
>Post-read snippet was called 'cleanup', correct?
>
>>Hi Ed ---
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>>It's an old SPR file which means that all of the controls are actually variants of @..GET and @..SAY....I think that if she opens the tables in the setup snippet and closes them in the post-READ snippet (dang - can't remember the name) of the main SPR and removes all open/close table commands from the child SPR files everything should be OK. I think. Boggles the mind, eh?
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>>>If you would be in VFP completely then the reason and workaround are known. You should unlink combo from cursor before rebuilding it. However, I don't know by sure how to apply it to your mixed environment.
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