Jim...

You are totally wacked. I think Ed might be onto something here.. Check out the math

Ed's way = 1,000 lines of code at $5.00 = $5,000
Our way = 2 lines of code at $5.00 = $10.00

Guess who's picking up our bar bill.......

Meessa got no boom boom


and self documenting method of synchronizing the data between two forms rather than depending on a side effect of sharing the same data environment.