>Yep...opened it up as a table...can't find anything goofy. I even wrote a utility that would count the '(' and ')' s in every field to try and find extras...there aren't any. I'm baffled. They all still work fine in fox 5.

Okay, maybe it's desperation time, then. You can always create a fresh copy of the vfp5 version, strip out a lot (or all) of the contained objects, and try converting. See what happens when you open in 6. Maybe you can narrow it down that way.