Kevin,

I found the problem. The cDataEnvironment class always returned .F. because the metadbf table info was wrong. Although the dataenvironment was instanatiated somehow, the object reference was not being created.

*---------------------- Location Section ------------------------
*   Library: CDataEnv.vcx
*   Class:   CDataEnvironment
*   Method:  Init()
*----------------------- Usage Section --------------------------


*-------------------------------------------------------------
*-- Get the name and location of the default database for this 
*-- data Environment
*-------------------------------------------------------------
IF This.lCheckDefaultDatabase AND TYPE('gl_MMDEBuilder') != 'L' 
    this.cDefaultDatabase = this.GetDefaultDatabase()
    IF EMPTY(this.cDefaultDatabase) OR !FILE(this.cDefaultDatabase)
*          =ErrorMsg(CANNOTFINDDATABASE_LOC + " " + this.cDefaultDatabaseName)
      RETURN .F.
    ENDIF
 ENDIF


I must have traversed up and down the calling stack for two days before I opened my preferences and noticed that the path to my dbc was '\prod\compile\newkirk\data\newkirk.dbc' instead of 'g:\prod\compile\newkirk\data\newkirk.dbc'. I don't know how the cursors managed to load correctly, but the calling stack kept returning .f. for This.oDataenvironment. Because the errormsg was commented out, I never saw the error. Perhaps you could put the error back in so that others won't have to go through this?