The little ones are the hardest to track down, glad you worked it out.

>I had this "=SEEK()" (instead of SELECT person, and then "SEEK()"), so yes, I wasn't in the selected table, so much to overlook that. Actually, this is my first time to use "=SEEK()", so I better be careful next time, same thing goes for INDEXSEEK() (new to me too).
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>>Another thing that could mess it up is if somewhere in your form you select the auth table, and leave it selected, maybe when you open your tables, you mentioned you do it in code right?, after you open your tables just select person, and whenever you handle auth in some way, select person afterwards.