>We will check this phenomenon out, but I beleive that you may be correct. What I said to my boss was that I thought that VFP 8 just might be a little more sensitive to data corruption.

If you can still open it from FPD, just copy it record by record into a new table. Then try to open that new table - a new table shouldn't be corrupt, right? That's the simplest test I can think of.