>I guess I have to do SCAN ... ENDSCAN and REPLACE to make it permanent?
>I didn't know SET ORDER TO was temporary. No wonder it didn't work. I figured it was something simple or stupid on my part. Thanks.

Make it permanent? The index is responsible for the ordering, and you just need to SET ORDER TO whatever order you need it to be. Are you trying to physically reorder the file? I'm still not sure what your goal is...

HTH,