Vlad,
Thanks for the answer, but I don't like it. There has to be some way around this. I have been plagued by this as I am writing a conversion program. I finally was able to pin it down to a typeo. The problem was it occured on about the 8000th time thru a loop. Debugging is hard under those circumstances.
A problem is a problem only as long as it has a possible solution. Lacking that, it becomes a FACT!