Bill, IMHO when the data on the backend dBase table is updated, it's still gonna bomb out when it tries to issue an UPDATE - SQL internally because of that field name.
>INSERT INTO MyTable VALUES ( Val1, Val2, ... )
>so you don't have to reference the troublesome field name directly?
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