It may be too late for this one, but to prevent future headaches, you should look at StoneField Database Toolkit (SDT).

>You know that old chestnut "...index does not match the table. Delete the index file and re-create the index"
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>Well, the tables in question have a whole shed-load of (sometimes compound) indexes. Is there a way of preserving their definitions so that I don't have to go into the table builder and manually and laboriously create the indexes all over from scratch? - Especially if this should happen more than once, and to several tables, as has just happened to me!