>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.

The STRUCTURE EXTENDED and CREATE FROM service would allow you to rebuild the header in V8. Copy the FPD DBFs SDF or delimited to a text file. Copy the FPD structure extended to a DBF. Then, with V8, CREATE FROM and append the text file.