Gents, Please disregard the last message. I changed the datatypes to bigint, and the problem is resolved. Hopefully forever. :) cheers, j === Archive at http://www.open.com.au/archives/radiator/ Announcements on radiator-announce at open.com.au To unsubscribe, email 'majordomo at open.com.au' with 'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message.