Jim,

The probability that this is a newly discovered VFP bug is much much smaller than the probability that it's programmer error or a corrupted index file.

>It does seem more than strange, though, that 3 separate problems of this nature have been reported within the last week to do with the SEEK() function (2 here and 1 on MS site).
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>It's almost is as though something *recent* has found a way to mess up a piece of VFP.