>I'm testing here with a 300,000 record table - but I no longer have VFP5 on my machines.

I no longer have VFP5 installed on my XP machine, either. I have VFP6 and 7 installed, but I can still run just the VFP.EXE over my network from a different box and it seems to work OK. Come to think of it, I ran it that same way under W2K, too.