>Ron, presumably you have followed Vlad's excellent suggestion to >replace >the VFP300.ESL file with a backup copy, to make sure it wasn't >damaged. If >you think your data might have been damaged by the system breakdown, >you >could do a Validate Data Recover on the DBC to check it. One thing that I've found with VFP library files is that they can't be PKZip'ed easily. The extracted file never seems to match the original. This can lead to the type of problems tha tyou've been describing, and replacing it with another .ZIPped copy won't solve anything. However, InstallShield seems to do a better job with the compression thing, at least, in this case. /Paul