>I was just trying something simple like the Export feature of Access to a format like Text or Excel, etc. and then trying to draw this in with VFP...worked fine, except for the field names. Guess I'll have to try a more direct approach as you suggested; thanks !

That would export to FP 2.6 format which is for free tables. I think this would be easiest with SQL Pass-through from the VFP side.

The other option would be to use the VFP ODBC driver from the Access side. When you choose the export type, select "ODBC Database" and it will let you select a DSN to a VFP DBC.