>Any way around this?
>
>>Yes. VFP 8 added some additional checks for table corruption.
>>
>>>After moving to VFP8 from VFP7, certain areas of my application seemed to have slowed down considerably. I think I've pinpointed it to the opening and closing of tables. Does it make sense that simply opening a table with the USE comand is slower in VFP8?

You can change the SET TABLEVALIDATE command to not do the checking, but be warned, you may be creating a potential "weak spot" in your app to corrupted data.