Hi David.

>The client machine is reading and displaying the table captions, so it is reading the coremeta table to get captions.
>
>Client machine displays field captions that are marked don't filter. This implies that the STDmeta file.

If you're deleting REPMETA.DBF and letting it get rebuilt, then take a look at the rebuilt table. Do you see the CAPTION column for field (RECTYPE = "F") filled in properly? Is the FILTERABLE flag set properly?

Doug