>Perhaps the program is looking at the OS date on that dbf -- check to see what the date is on the
backup and see if you can find a way to restore it without changing the date in the process.

Almost forgot this part - the databases are recreated each year, using new data. Therefore, the dates of the dbf files change each year. This is part of why I don't understand why the system is complaining about the date. I've tried to think of every date that could be out of sync, I've wiped out the databases and recreated them to make sure that the dates would be the same on all of them, and am sort of lost as to what to do next.

Thanks for sympathizing! :) If I can fix this, I will achieve the rank of miracle worker, I think!

Kim