>We missed you too... btw, you knew I was kidding about your resemblance to Tattoo on Fantasy Island, I'm hoping :)

My picture here or in real life? I know you're kidding but, geez, I'm 6'1" and blue eyed. Where's the Tattoo :-D

>Interesting... well, if all these memo fields are going to say the same thing, I wonder if there's any way to make them all point to the same block of space and not have to repeat it (even physically separated) time and time again.

If a block of text is going to be repeated verbatim amongst multiple records, why not have a child table store the memo fields and have the parent link in to the appropriate child table one-to-many?