Ok, i made sure i draged from parent to child, and that it was a normal index, not a primary key or anything of that sort. Anyway, it still didn't work. I tried to use copy this form and tables to another computer, and it wont even open them. So I'm deffinity leaning towards this being and issue with a bad foxpro installation. In which case, its time to reformat. Thanx for trying, and thanx for the serial function, I already integrated it into my project.
Brian