OOPs, you answered too fast. I made a mistake.
All records were intact, just scrambled. I can read some of the fields it's just that the incorrect data is there.
As for why? Good question. Not my laptop but a client's about 7 years old
with 64 Meg ram. It's never locked up before in my program. I'll have to investigate. The program is very slowww on that laptop and the user is impatient. It may not have locked at all but that's the explanation I got.