>Also in earlier versions we used to hack the CDX files with low level file functions to remove this kind of bad indexing. In that case we had a UDF that created a thermobar, but it was the same idea.

I considered that, but never looked at the CDX to see how easy it would be. I dunno, seems to me the simplest thing to do is create a new datasession, open up the table with the assumed alias (the DBF name I'm guessing) and INDEX on from there.