>I'm using a remote view displayed in a grid to update a .dbf and encountered a strange problem. The tableupdate() returns a .t. only after I've run it as many times as the number of records changed. Earlier the program was updating the table with a single tableupdate(). Can anyone tell me what may be going wrong ?

Are you using Row or table buffering? What does AERROR() return as the reason for the failed updates?