Scott,

>And there's no way to do it in VFP6 without trapping for
>the error? I know i could just trap the error,

Well, I'm not Mr.Guru but AFAIK that was the only way.

One more good reason to upgrade to VFP7 and keep our language
alive! <g>

You might ask Sergey, he seems to know everything. If he's not
answering within the next hours, there's definitely no way <bg>.

>
>but I'd prefer a more elegant method if one exists.
>

I'm like that. But sometimes things just have to work. And ask
Yourself if this works properly. Is it worth to search another
ten hours for the solution or do You have other things to do.

Take it that way: If You just take theese ten hours and work
for a client, it will earn You enough money to buy the
VFP7-Update and that will also solve Your problem,
as then You will have =aSessions() (the elegant solution)

How about that <s>?