>One additional thing I notice: I get a ".00" at the end of the $50, (whatever the SET DECIMALS setting is).

Try 5000. You'll see, that you don't get a comma. Anyway, I went ahead and implemented strtran idea.

In any case, this stupid report doesn't work! I spent ~3 full days working on this report and the problem is, that I need output to ASCII file. Print Preview works great, Print also works, but ASCII file produces something weird (truncated strings, etc.). May be we have to find another solution here. Really pity, that I already spent so much time on it :((((