>I keep getting a "file access is denied" error with this method. Not in the designer though... only after I have built the .exe.
That might mean that you have opened the table exclusively, before. Try to see where you open the table is open, and change to shared access:
use MyTable shared
or
set exclusive off
...
use MyTable
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