Ed,
You are right I was frustrated. Last week we lost our payroll (300 people) because we lost our server because we had a manager trying to save power during the rolling blackouts who turned off all the circuit breakers and even the UPS couldn't last an entire weekend without the power coming back. The payroll is part of a foxpro 2.6 system and the files were open and the headers corrupted and I've never read the payroll module before and I missed my SQL class in Colorado and all I wanted was for something to work.....

Okay, no more excuses, I'm done whining.

As you may notice above I got my answer this afternoon, and as I suspected it was something I did (actually something I didn't do). Yes, everyone here is very supportive I will just have to practice patience and have faith that the answer will eventually come.