>What happens if you just do a DELETE TAG ALL and then use the INDEX on commands?

I didn't test that, David.

But I surmise, based on Hacker's assertion that deleting all of the TAGs erases the .CDX file, that one would end up with a nice clean .CDX file. It looks like that file would be substantially bigger in VFP7 than in VFP6 based on recent disclosures here.