>>I have a table that suddenly began opening in my forms with the record pointer at eof (reccount() + 1). All databound controls come up blank, and vcr buttons disable themselves. I can write code to move the pointer to a valid record, and everything is fine and dandy, but I shouldn't have to do this. What happened, and what can I do to fix this. Please forgive if this is an exremely basic question, but I have never had this problem before.
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>The common reason of EOF is unsuccessful seek. Try to make SET NEAR ON and probably your problem will disappear.

There are no seeks being issued to the table before the form is painted. I tried SET NEAR ON anyway, no dice. thanks for the suggestion though. Any other ideas? (please?)