John,

>Thanks for the reply. I am much more inclined to have one approach to keep up with.
>
>I worked out an approch to recycling records see my reply to Rick. If I missed anything please let me know.

Just check query performance carefully with full-size tables with a usual mix of deleted and live records (see my reply to Rick). If you will have lots of deleted records, the performance penalty of DELETED() tag may not apply.