>Thomas --
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>Wow! You've done a quite a lot with this -- a lot more than me. I simply addresses this forum as soon as I could tell what was going on.
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>Thus far, I have merely changed my code by doing two things: including "READWRITE" (so that it is on disk) and closing it before re-using it.
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AFAIK adding READWRITE gives you no guarantee that the cursor is actually written to disk, but I may be wrong.