Obviously I'm NOT making myself clear. - I CAN do anything, create new tables, import data, rename tables, even write a program to do it all. That's NOT the issue.

*********Am I violating copyright?*********

Thomas says see a lawyer. That's great advise but I don't even have the job yet! I was assuming someone has run into this dilemma before.

To be on the safe side I will inform my client we must start over from scratch.

As a side point: a recent client who owns their code ( and had a signed document saying so) wanted me to make some changes. The original developer would NOT give them their own code. She wanted to charge the client $5000 for the code! It went to the lawyers and after spending $1000, the client said forget it. They just refoxed the code in the end and got me to pick it up. Moral of the story? You tell me. I just don't want to be stuck in the middle...

Thanks for all your responses