>>How are you deleting the record? By chance by clicking the delete column in a grid?
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>>You still need the tableupdate() to send the delete back to the source table.
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>In the delete method of my form I'm issuing a DELETE command.

This isn't a newly-appended record, is it? If it is, you need to do a TABLEREVERT() instead of a TABLEUPDATE() to delete it.