>As importantly, how come a record can be successfully added to a table when it is NOT in a
>TRANSACTION yet within a TRANSACTION it gets 'lost'??? Surely that difference can be isoltaed
>by those who have the code.

It was isolated when I worked for Microsoft Product Support, and I saw the explanation.

Remember, Jim, in 3.0 and below, the error we got on header corruption was "Not a table." Personally, I like the new error better.