>
>The program depends on multiple dbf files, all created from a "master" dbf file. The master contains about 190,000 records. The remaining databases are created from the master dbf. Each has the same file structure (39 fields, 280 char in length). The number of records varies from 1 to a couple of hundred. The only other dbf in the directory that I could find was the Foxuser file. Nothing has been updated in it since 1997. I think I said already that the files are recreated each year. That includes the Master file. The data is good for one fiscal year only. After that, the files are compressed and set aside in an "old" directory, and the entire set of files is recreated.
>

It might be that you are having a y2k problem. You say the data only gets updated once a year and it hasn't been updated since 1999. Try running the program with 1999 data and see if it works. Otherwise, give refox a shot so you can step through the program to find the problem.