Larry,

Ok, your test showed you that on one of the calls the table was not buffered, however if anything else openned that table as buffered then your SELECT would find it buffered. I woudl suggest a change in the code to do smomething like this;

IF USED("System")
   SELECT System
   LOCAL lnBufMode
   lnBufMode = CursorGetProp("Buffering")
   CursorSetProp("Buffering",0)

...


* and at the end of the routine

CursorSetProp("Buffering",lnBufMode)

Don't foget that you have a bunch of other code to fit around these items. Basically this is saving the current buffer mode, changing to no buffering and then setting the mode back again.