>Hi Jerry,
>
>This is not necessarily true with Access 2000 projects. Access 2000 projects can use SQL Server or MSDE as the data store and avoid the MDB mess altogether.

Couldn't prove it by me! ;-) I left VB and Access years ago, with no intention of returning.

BTW, SQL Server is just the old Sybase SQL server gussied up a bit, if I recall correctly. Watcom used to market their SQL Anywhere engine 4.32, which I used with Powerbuilder a lot. It was sweet, light and fast, but very compliant.
But, like VB and Access, I don't follow PB either. Now it's just VFP and C++ on Linux.

<snip>