At 01:44 PM 17/09/2003 +1000, you wrote:

> > are you by chance being bitten by Windows XP's System Restore
> > (mal)function?
>
>Thanks for the idea Nando. Tried disabling system restore, but no luck.
>
>It seems to be a peculiarity of our particular database, which
>unforutnately I can't (contractually) let out of our labs for anyone
>else to test.

Not even metadata-only? I'd be interested to know how your application is
managing record-uniqueness in the datasets and whether your queries are
delivering it usefully to the clientdatasets.

Helen