>>If I were you I would make sure the correct alias is selected. The gather >command has no way to direct output to a specific alias.
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>The alias I was attempting to gather to is sumSystem. I selected this alias prior to issueing the gather command. All but three fields were gathered to sumSystem, the three fields that had an s dropped from the end gathered to the alias tmpSystems, which was the alias selected immediately prior to selecting sumSystem. This transfering of array elements not found in the selected alias seems odd to me.
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>John Morrison

did tmpSystems have those three fields' names (wo/ the 's' at the end)?