hi

I had the same problem... I had to ensure that the db installed is the same that the one I've been testing with...

so I had to get a 'checksum' of the columns of each table and obtain a number that identifies the db structure. But as you say, the checksum may not be unique for each value.... what ensures uniqueness is a hash.
So I used Milan's CryptPak to MD5 every record...

I don't have the code right now... but the idea is smthg like this:

while not eof
read a record from the table
hash_rec = hash_rec + read_rec
hash_rec = MD5(hash_rec)
end

so, it will concatenate each record and obtain a unique identifier.

hope this helps you.
fabian