John,
Sorry for the delay - I've been offline most of the week. When I had a corrupt Comprss.dbf in VFP3 (Many eons ago) I deleted it and it was rebuilt. Make a backup, of course.....

HTH
Barbara

>Barbara,
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>Yes she has already run the SP3 and the wizard programs, we have determined that the Comprss.dbf is not being propery read by the setup wizard.
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>I think the answer will be to uninstall the VFP and move up to 6.0.